Measuring an Individual's Investment in the Future: Symbolic Immortality, Sensation Seeking, and Psychic Numbness.

Mathews, Robert C.; Mister, Rena D.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Measuring an Individual's Investment in the Future: Symbolic Immortality, Sensation Seeking, and Psychic Numbness.

Mathews, Robert C.; Mister, Rena D.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v18 n3 p161-73 1987-88

Operationalized Lifton's constructs of symbolic immortality and developed instrument to measure individual's needs for symbolic immortality in Lifton's five modes (biological, religious, nature, creative, experiential) in study which also examined age effects on needs for symbolic immortality and relation between sensation seeking and symbolic immortality. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Death, Individual Needs, Psychological Patterns, Risk

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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