UNSPECIFIED (2005) Positive and negative changes following occupational death exposure. JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, 18 (6). pp. 751-758. ISSN 0894-9867

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Abstract

Professionals who work in Situations that expose them to death have long been of interest to traumatic stress research. However, the positive changes that these professionals may also experience have not been the subject of empirical scrutiny. This study examined occupational death exposure, death attitudes, subjective appraisals, intrusions, avoidance, social support, and positive and negative affect, and their associations with positive and negative psychological changes in funeral directors. Multivariate hierarchical regression analyses revealed that positive changes were significantly and independently predicted by an approach acceptance death attitude and social support; negative changes were significantly and independently predicted by fear of death, intrusions and avoidance, and occupational death exposure. The discussion focuses on how these findings extend the literature dealing with occupational death exposure, to-ether with a consideration of limitations of the study that inform directions for future research.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Journal or Publication Title:	JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS
Publisher:	JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
ISSN:	0894-9867
Date:	December 2005
Volume:	18
Number:	6
Number of Pages:	8
Page Range:	pp. 751-758
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/34020

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