• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.109-125
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• 2007

How an elderly people meets death is the matter of how he has lived his life. It is very important for an elderly people at the last step of his life to re-light up life and to meet death with dignity. The purpose of this study is to investigate where fear or anxiety of death come from among the four dimensins of death anxiety and to compare the differenced between the elderly group and non-elderly group, For this research, the 473 of the subjects from 20 to 80 years old attending social welfare center and community areas in Seoul have been questionned. The summary for the study mentioned the following: First, the overall scores of death anxiety, in the non-aged group, gender and religiosity are important factors affecting the decrease of death anxiety, On the other hand, in the aged group, self-respect, death readiness and number of friends are significant factors. Secondly, for death anxiety of self, age and spouse are significant relationships among non-aged group and gender, death readiness and number of friends for aged-group. In the dying of self, the following each three significant variables: gender, self-respect and spouse among non-aged group and gender, self-respect and number of friends among aged group. In death anxiety of others, age, view on next world and spouse are best predictor for non-aged group. Finally, family-relationship, self-respect and spouse are significant factors for aged group. In dying of others, only one factors are influenced for non-aged group, on the other hand, gender, self-respect and death readiness are important factors for aged group. There remains the need for more detailed examination into the nature of this relationship and the extent to which core components strongly affecting the above subscales.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.400-409
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• 2007

Purpose: This study was performed to investigate the level of subjective health status, religiosity and the fear of death of the elderly and to identify the relationships among them. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study using a questionnaire. Fear of Death Scale that was made by Loo & Shea (1996) and translated and revised by Kim(2003) was used to measure the fear of death. The data was analyzed using SPSS. Results: The subject was 128 community dwelling elders who had a religion. Of the respondents, 50% felt 'not healthy', and 69.5% was moderately religious. The mean score of FODS was 3.18 (out of 5). The mean score of each subcategory of FODS was as follows: Death anxiety about the death of self was 3.00. Death anxiety about the dying of self was 3.18. Death anxiety about the death of others was 3.31 and death anxiety about the dying of others was 3.23. There was a statistically significance correlation between the level of religiosity and FODS (F=3.29, p= .040). Conclusion: Health professionals may make efforts to learn about healthy attitudes toward death and aid for the elderly and to comfort them. Death education programs are needed for the elderly.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2405-2408
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• 2012

This descriptive study was performed to determine levels of the death anxiety levels of relatives of patients who being treated in a public hospital located in the Asian side of Istanbul and influencing factors. The sample was 106 patient relatives of patients from oncology or chemotherapy units of the hospital. Data were collected between May-June 2011 with the 15-item Death Anxiety Scale developed by Templer (1970) and adapted to Turkish by Senol (1989) and evaluated by number-percentage calculations, the Kruskal Wallis, Anova and t tests. Some 36.8% of the included group were aged 45 years and over, 57.5% were female and 65.1% were married. A statistically significant difference was found between the age groups, genders of the patient relatives, the period of cancer treatment regarding the death anxiety levels (p<0.05). The death anxiety levels of the patient relatives who were in the 17-39 age group, female and had a patient who was under treatment for less than 6 months were found to high as compared to others.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2008

Purpose : This study aims at analyzing perception of death anxiety among juniors and seniors majoring in emergency medical technology to provide data which can contribute to curricular design associated with death that meets characteristics of the students majoring in emergency medical technology as pre-service emergency medical technicians. Methods : This study was conducted with 210 students as juniors or seniors majoring in emergency medical technology at four colleges in some regions(Yeongnam district), finally using 177 copies for data processing. Data collection was carried out from April 11 through May 16, 2008, Analysis was performed using frequency analysis, t-test, and ANOVA. Statistical processing was implemented using an SPSS WIN 15.0 program. Results: 1. 83.6% of students majoring in emergency medical technology had no experience in getting learning about death. 58.7% were afraid of death 'because they would be sad to be separated from things they loved,' 2. The general degree of death anxiety measured in the four-point scale was 2.54(.33). 3. As for differences in death anxiety among students majoring in emergency medical technology by grades, seniors(2.64) showed a lower score for anxiety than juniors(2.74) in terms of 'anxiety about others' death.' 4. As for differences in death anxiety among students majoring in emergency medical technology by gender, female students(2.64) showed a higher degree of death anxiety than males students(2.44), Conclusion : It is necessary to develop education and programs associated with death anxiety in order to reduce fear and anxiety about death and accept one's own death in a positive way through patients in imminent death.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.107-120
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing death anxiety, hospices knowledge, and attitude towards end-of-life care among paramedic students. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 196 paramedic students in D university college in J city from November 2011 to November 2014. The study instruments included death anxiety, hospices knowledge, and attitude towards end-of-life care. Data were analyzed by t test, ANOVA, post hoc $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, Pearson's correlation test, and stepwise multiple regression analysis using SPSS v. 20.0. Results: According to a stepwise regression on the factors influencing attitudes towards end-of-life care, 80.4% of variance (F=161.360, p<.001) was explained by experience of death, hospices knowledge, disappearance of death anxiety, satisfaction with relationships (${\geq}2$) and student attitude toward end-of-life care. In addition, 44.1% of the variance (F=39.434, p<.001) was explained by experience of death, satisfaction with relationship(${\leq}4$), warning of others about death anxiety, and family attitude towards end-of-life care. Conclusion: The attitude towards end-of-life care was influenced by hospices knowledge and death anxiety in paramedic students. It is necessary to provide training in understanding attitudes towards death anxiety and end-of-life care. An effective educational program should be developed and implemented among paramedic students to improve their awareness of death and anxiety hospices knowledge.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.251-262
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which in-hospital-based home health nurses' perceptions and anxiety about death following terminal care, affects their attitudes toward terminal care. Methods: The subjects were 128 advanced practice nurses working in hospital-based facilities for home health care, located in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Incheon Metropolitan City. Data were collected from May 3, 2019, to June 3, 2019, using structured questionnaires, on terminal care and related variables based on the literature. Data were analyzed by performing the Student's t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multivariable stepwise regression using the SPSS Version 25.0 program. Results: The scores of the attitudes toward terminal care of home health care nurses was 3.25 points out of a possible 4 points. Factors affecting nurses' attitudes toward terminal care were their concern about death(β=0.45, p<0.001), religion(β=-0.26, p=0.001) and the anxiety of others about dying(β=-0.23, p=0.003), which explained 32.0% of the observed variance concerning the factors affecting nurses' attitudes toward terminal care. Conclusion: Through this study, concern about death, anxiety about how other people process dying, and religion, were found to be associated factors. The more concerned the nurses were about death and the less their anxiety about how others process dying, the better the home health care nurses' attitude toward implementing terminal care.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.89-102
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• 1990

The research is a comparative study of death attitudes between male and female elderly people. There is no doubt as to the inevitability of death. And yet, there is a vast conspiracy involved in the word of dead or death. The aged are considered to be nearer death than are people in other age groups. Kalish(1976) emphasized that for the aged two meanings of death have significance for evaluating their life ; first, that older people are known to have a limited life time and face death ; second that older people are known to have suffered many death-imposed losses that are often associated with the dying process. In considering these implications, the level of anxiety regarding death and dying is a crucial factor in determining mental health. In the study, 152 male elderly and 145 female elderly residing in Seoul, Korea was compared on the four dimensions of death anxiety and assigned personal variables. Therefore, the purpose the research was (1) to examine the characteristics of subjects on the independent variables(age, marital status, family relationship, social activities, religiousity etc.) ; (2) to examine the relationship between the independent variables and each dimension of death axniety ; (3) to determine the proportion of variance in the respective of death anxiety which is accounted for by the respective independent variables ; (4) to examine whether a significant difference between the respective independent variables and each dimension of death anxiety has ; (5) to determine the combination of variables which is the most successful in explaining the variance in death anxiety. Finding from this study support the following conclusions; 1. There was a significant differences between the male and female subjects in the level of death anxiety. In turn, the male older adults had lower death anxiety than did the female elderly. This implies that male tend to look forward to death rather than deny it. 2. As there was evidences from several studies, this research found that fear of death decreases as age increases. 3. The following two variables that correlate best with dying anxiety of others in both male and female older adults : 'marriage life', 'social interaction'. 4. The variables 'age' and 'children' for both female and male elderly accounted for the most variance in death anxiety of self. The findings of the study lend this investigator several suggestions, implications and recommendations for future research. There can be no death without life, and conversely, no life without death. Psychologists and health-related professionals may be learn as much about death as they can in order to develop more healthy attitudes and in order to be able to better aid and comfort dying people and their familities. Perhaps most importantly, professionals may be help those who are not faced with death at present to develop an understanding of it and healthy attitudes toward it. The programs of death education are needed for dedication to the evitability of death and the preparation of life for the older adults. More seminars, symposiums and research on death attitudes are needed. Finally, study for female older adults has been negelected topic in the areas of women's study and health education. Future study, for female elderly, have to deeply investigate where those problems come from and how to cope with in order to the female elderly segment can live the rest of their lives in satisfaction with well-being.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.737-745
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• 2021

목적: 본 연구는 호스피스 병동 간호사의 죽음 불안과 돌봄 요구를 성격유형을 중심으로 살펴본 서술적 조사연구이다. 방법: 호스피스 병동에서 근무하는 118명의 간호사를 대상으로 시행되었고, SPSS Statistics 26으로 분석하였다. 결과: 대상자의 죽음 불안은 2.41±0.27이었고, 하위 항목 중 '자신의 죽어감에 대한 두려움(2.60±0.38)'이 가장 높았다. 돌봄 요구는 3.58±0.60이었고, 하위 항목 중 '용서하기(3.74±0.64)'가 가장 높았다. 죽음 불안과 돌봄 요구 간의 유의한 정적 상관관계(r=.265, p=.004)를 확인하였다. 대상자의 성격유형별 죽음 불안이 돌봄 요구에 미치는 영향은 감정 중심 유형에서 타인의 죽어감에 대한 두려움(𝛽=-1.021, t=-2.388, p=.027)이 돌봄 요구에 영향을 미치는 요인(F=3.724, p=.020)으로 확인되었다. 결론: 죽음 불안과 돌봄 요구는 유의한 정적 상관관계를 보이며, 감정 중심 유형에서 죽음 불안이 돌봄 요구에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 고전문학과교육
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• 제34호
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• pp.41-74
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• 2017

이 연구는 <숙향전>을 대상으로 고전소설에 나타난 환상의 서사 전략과 의미를 살피고, <숙향전>의 환상성이 갖는 교육적 의미를 도출하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 대상 텍스트로 <숙향전>을 삼은 것은 <숙향전>이 환상성이 두드러지게 나타난 작품이며 당대 높은 인기를 구가했다는 점에서 고전소설에 나타나는 환상의 특성을 밝히기에 적합하다고 여겨졌기 때문이다. 특히 이 연구에서는 <숙향전>의 서사에서 반복적으로 나타나는 '고난의 예고'가 천상계의 개입을 사전에 예고함으로써 작품의 환상성을 강화한다고 보고, 숙향의 삶을 중심으로 고난의 예고와 환상의 관계를 살펴보았다. <숙향전>에서 '고난의 예고'가 환상을 실현하는 방식은 천상계가 숙향에게 고난을 부여하고 고난에서 구원하는 방식으로 나타난다. 우선 천상계의 예고는 <숙향전>의 거시 구조를 형성하며, 독자는 숙향의 삶이 천상계의 예고대로 실현되는 것을 보면서 인간의 운명을 관장하는 천상계의 거대한 힘을 깨닫고 천상계에 대한 경외심을 갖는다. 또한 천상계는 위험에 처한 숙향을 구하기도 하는데, 천상계의 전지전능한 힘은 고난의 순간에서 숙향이 보이는 순진한 모습과 대조되어 천상계의 초월적 힘이 주는 경이로운 느낌을 강화한다. 한편 천상계가 꿈을 통해 숙향과 주변 인물들에게 운명을 알리고 운명을 실현하게 하는 것은 작품에 신비한 분위기를 조성하고 서사의 개연성을 높이는 효과가 있다. '고난의 예고'를 통해서 작품의 환상성을 강화하는 것의 서사적 의미는 숙향의 현실 삶을 통해 밝힐 수 있다. 첫째, 숙향이 겪는 고난은 현실적이고 구체적이기에 독자는 숙향에 감정이입하여 다가올 고난을 두려워하고 함께 통곡하며, 숙향이 행복을 성취하는 모습을 통해 내면의 근심을 해소한다. 둘째, 숙향의 선한 행동에 감동한 천상계의 존재들이 숙향을 죽을 고비에서 구하는 것은 독자에게 선한 길을 가는 인간에게는 천상계가 함께 할 것이라는 믿음을 준다. 셋째, 숙향과 이선이 결연 과정에서 보여주는 능동적인 자세는 지상에서의 고난을 극복하고 천상계에서 그 인연을 이어가게 하며, 이는 독자에게 고난을 통해 더 상위의 삶으로 나아갈 수 있다는 희망을 준다. 이러한 <숙향전>의 환상성은 환상을 통해 현실의 불안을 극복하여 자아를 발견하게 하며, 관계 인식을 확장하여 타자와의 일체감과 연대감을 높인다는 점에서 현대 학습자에게도 유의미한 가치를 가질 것으로 기대된다.