| Autor: |
Khawaja, Amina Obaid, AsirAjmal, M. |
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Pakistan Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology; Sep2012, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p3-8, 6p |
| Abstrakt: |
The purpose of this study was to map the mental schema of death espoused by contemporary Pakistani youth. A convenient sample of 100 undergraduate students was taken and an open-ended questionnaire was used to procure words/phrases that came to the participants' minds when they thought of death. From among the response pool of 2000 words, the top 20 in terms of frequency were selected. Multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis were used for the cognitive mapping of the death concept. A two-dimensional map and a cluster structure consisting of three main clusters were thus obtained. Overall, the conceptualization of death in the minds of young men and women in Pakistan was found to be a complex interweaving of modernity and tradition with tradition being the stronger influence. In the death schema discovered, the sub construct of noncorporeal continuation proposed by Speece (1995) is very prominent. Implications for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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