The use of death metaphors to understand personal meaning of death among hong kong chinese undergraduates

Death Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-62

  Cheung, Wing Shan ^a   Ho, Samuel M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINA; CHINESE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; FANTASY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; REVISED DEATH FANTASY SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT; TEMPLER DEATH ANXIETY SCALE; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHINA; CULTURE; DEATH; FANTASY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0345743711     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180490249265     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Buss, A. H., & Plomin, R. (1975). Atemperament theory of personality. NewYork:Wiley.
2. Corr, C.A. (1995). Entering into adolescent understandings of death. In E.A. Grollman (Ed.), Bereaved children and teens. A support guide for parents and professionals (pp. 21-35). Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
3. Feifel, H., & Nagy, V.T. (1981).Another look at fear of death. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 40, 278-286.
4. Florian, V., & Snowden, L. R. (1989). Fear of death and positive life regard: A study of different ethnic and religious-affiliated American college students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 20, 64-79.
5. Gothelf, D., Apter, A., Brand-Gothelf, A., Offer, N., Ofek, H., Tyano, S., & Pfeffer, C. R. (1998). Death concepts in suicidal adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 1279-1286.
6. Ho, D.Y. F. (1997). Relational counseling: An Asian perspective on therapeutic intervention. Paper presented atThe 55th Annual Convention International Council of Psychologists, Graz, Austria.
7. Ho, S. M.Y. (2001, November). Sketches of death among healthcare professionals inHong Kong. Paper presented at the annual general meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, Hong Kong.
8. Ho, S.M.Y., Chow, A.Y.M., Chan, C. L.W., & Tsui, Y. K.Y. (2002).The assessment of grief amongHongKong Chinese: Apreliminary report. Death Studies, 26, 91-98.
9. Ho, S.M.Y., Ho, J.W. C., Chan, C. L.W., Kwan, K., & Tsui, Y.K.Y. (2003). Decisional consideration of hereditary colon cancer genetic test results among Hong Kong Chinese adults. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 12, 426-432.
10. Ho, S.M.Y., & Shiu, W. C.T. (1995). Death anxiety and coping mechanism of Chinese cancer patients. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 31, 59-65.
11. Hwang, M. T. C. (1995). A cross-cultural study toward death and dying between Chinese and American college students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
12. Indurkhya, B. (1994). Metaphor as change of representation: An interaction theory of cognition and metaphor. In J. Hintikka (Ed.), Aspects of metaphor, (pp. 95-105). Dordrecht: KluwerAcademic Publishers.
13. Kubler-Ross, E. (1975).Death: The final stage of growth. EnglewoodCliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall.
14. Leming, M. R., & Dickinson, G. E. (1998). The grieving process. In M. R. Leming & G. E. Dickinson (Eds.), Understanding dying, death, and bereavement (3rd ed., pp. 495-506). NewYork: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
15. Lynch, J. H. (1976).The contexts of death imagery: An investigation of suggested categorical distinctions among twenty five death-associated images. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon.
16. Markus, H.R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253.
17. Matalon, T. H. (2000). The relationship among children’s conceptualization of death, parental communication about death, and parental death anxiety. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 61(2), 510.
18. McLennan, J., Akande, A., & Bates, G.W. (1993). Death anxiety and death denial: Nigerian and Australian students’metaphors of personal death. Journal of Psychology, 127, 399-407.
19. McLennan, J., & Stewart, C. A. (1997).Usingmetaphors to assess anticipatory perceptions of personal death. Journal of Psychology Interdisciplinary & Applied, 131, 333-343.
20. Parkes, C. M., & Weiss, R. S. (1983). Recovery from bereavement. NewYork: Basic Books.
21. Riddle, R. E. (2000).The relationship between burnout, death anxiety and aggression in police officers. DissertationAbstracts International: SectionB:The Sciences and Engineering, 60(9), 4906.
22. Rose, B.M., & O’Sullivan, M. J. (2002).Afterlifebeliefs anddeath anxiety:An exploration of the relationship between afterlife expectations and fear of death in an undergraduate population. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 45, 229-243.
23. Ross, L.M., & Pollio, H. R. (1991).Metaphor of death: Athematic analysis of personal meanings. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 23, 291-307.
24. Schumaker, J. F., Barraclough, R. A., & Vagg, L.M. (1988).Death anxiety inMalsysian andAustralian university students. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 22, 85-100.
25. Templer, T.D. (1970).The construction and validation of the Death Anxiety Scale. Journal of General Psychology, 82, 165-177.
26. Wallston, K. A., Wallston, B. S., & DeVillas, R. (1978). Development of the Health Locus of Control (MHLC) scales. Health EducationMonographs, 6, 160-170.
27. Westman, A. S., & Canter, F.M. (1985). Fear of death and the concept of extended self. Psychological Reports, 56, 419-425.
28. Williams, C. A. S. (1920). A manual of Chinese metaphor: being a selection of typical Chinese metaphors, with explanatory notes and indices. Shanghai, China: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General.