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2. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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   Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). [1] This anxiety can significantly impact various aspects of a person's life. [2] Death anxiety is different from necrophobia, which refers to an irrational or disproportionate fear of dead bodies or of anything associated with ...

3. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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   Essentially, the DTA hypothesis states that if individuals are motivated to avoid cognitions about death, and they avoid these cognitions by espousing a worldview or by buffering their self-esteem, then when threatened, an individual should possess more death-related cognitions (e.g., thoughts about death, and death-related stimuli) than they ...

4. Death and adjustment hypotheses - Wikipedia

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   The text book 'Human Immortality' that elaborates DAH and issues related to it. Death and adjustment hypotheses (DAH) is a theory about death and dying that focuses on death anxiety and adjustment to death. [1] It was presented by Mohammad Samir Hossain as an answer to the overwhelming anxiety and grief about death.

5. Acute stress reaction - Wikipedia

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   According to the DSM-5, acute stress disorder requires the exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation by either directly experiencing it, witnessing it in person, learning it occurred to a close family or friend, or experiencing repeated exposure to aversive details of a traumatic event. [4]

6. Anxiety - Wikipedia

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   Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. [1] [2] [3] Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. [4]

7. Barbie has death anxiety. Here's what it means. - AOL

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   “However, you can think of death anxiety as a normal and universal part of being human, in that all of us have to grapple with our awareness of death and the discomfort that can come with this ...