The semantic perception of life, death and suicide
| Autor: | Charles Neuringer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Attitude to Death media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Poison control Suicide Attempted Suicide prevention Semantic Differential Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Semantic similarity Perception Injury prevention medicine Humans media_common Human factors and ergonomics Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychophysiologic Disorders Suicide Clinical Psychology Medical emergency Semantic differential Psychology Attitude to Health Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Psychology. 35:255-258 |
| ISSN: | 1097-4679 0021-9762 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/1097-4679(197904)35:2<255::aid-jclp2270350206>3.0.co;2-z |
| Popis: | Gathered semantic distance scores between pairs of concepts (life and death, life and suicide, and death and suicide) from suicidal, psychosomatic, and hospitalized patients (N = 45). It was hypothesized that suicidal individuals would show greater semantic identity between these concepts than would the other patients. It was thought that such semantic identity on the part of the other patients. It was thought that such semantic identity on the part of the suicidal individuals would reflect their inability to discriminate between these concepts. However, it was found that the suicidal individuals differentiated between life and death to a significantly greater degree than did the comparison groups. It may be that suicidal decisions are based more on being confronted by definite clear alternative states of existence than by confusion between them. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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