A Qualitative Study of How Hospice Workers Cope With Their Level of Exposure to Death.

Objective: To identify whether hospice workers hold unique and theoretically-informative perspectives about death, especially as they relate to terror management processes.

Method: Twelve hospice workers from two hospices in Tucson, Arizona, United States, participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview and analytic practices were guided by Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).

The role of perceived level of threat, reactance proneness, political orientation, and coronavirus salience on health behavior intentions.

Objective: This pre-registered study was designed to test whether reminders of death and coronavirus would have similar or different effects on health behavior intentions concerning COVID-19 (e.g., mask wearing, social distancing) and whether the type of framing of these behaviors would moderate these effects.

Loss and lastingness? Further exploring the relationship between the death of a close other, belief in an everlasting soul, and terror management processes.

This research explored the relationship between the death of a close other (DOCO) and terror management processes. In Study 1 ( = 810), university students who experienced DOCO (vs. not) reported higher university and American identification; greater self-esteem and meaning in life; lower death-thought accessibility; greater "death-as-passage" representations; and higher belief in an everlasting soul.