Coppola K M, Strohmetz David B
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey.
Death Stud. 2002 Oct;26(8):689-99. doi: 10.1080/07481180290088383a.
Although psychologists have conducted a great deal of research on death and dying, little is known about how topics related to death and dying are introduced in psychology courses. We analyzed the amount and breadth of coverage given to topics related to death and dying in 28 introductory psychology textbooks published between 1995 and 2000. We coded for number of words included, the types of topics discussed, and authors cited. All textbooks included some information about death and dying, most frequently, suicide. Little consistency was found in references cited. We recommend that future textbooks include information to help students explore their own death attitudes, as well as providing more theory and empirical research findings on aspects of death and dying.
尽管心理学家已经对死亡和濒死进行了大量研究，但对于死亡和濒死相关主题在心理学课程中是如何被引入的，人们却知之甚少。我们分析了1995年至2000年间出版的28本心理学入门教材中关于死亡和濒死相关主题的覆盖量和广度。我们对所包含的单词数量、讨论的主题类型以及被引用的作者进行了编码。所有教材都包含了一些关于死亡和濒死的信息，最常见的是自杀。在所引用的参考文献中几乎没有发现一致性。我们建议未来的教材应包含有助于学生探索自身死亡态度的信息，同时提供更多关于死亡和濒死方面的理论和实证研究结果。
