Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 580-593

  Iverach, Lisa ^a   Menzies, Ross G ^b   Menzies, Rachel E ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death anxiety; Fear of death; Mortality salience; Psychopathology; Terror Management Theory; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; AWARENESS; DEATH; DEATH ANXIETY; DEATH ANXIETY SCALE; DEATH DEPRESSION SCALE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMORBIDITY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84907985846     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2014.09.002     Document Type: Review

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