Westman A S
Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 48197.
Psychol Rep. 1992 Dec;71(3 Pt 2):1064-6. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3f.1064.
82 students completed a questionnaire which measured their existential anxiety as described by Yalom, conceptualization of self and of death, denial of death, and religiosity. For these students, scores on existential anxiety correlated with identity confusion, feeling responsible toward others but fearing emotional closeness with them, seeing people as fundamentally different and not seeing oneself as living on in one's tasks or projects. Their existential anxiety scores were not related to a particular concept of death, but death was more likely to be seen as cold and denied. Their existential anxiety seemed symptomatic of adjustment problems for which religiosity was not helpful. Specific suggestions for further research are made.
82名学生完成了一份问卷，该问卷测量了他们的存在焦虑（如雅洛姆所描述的）、自我和死亡的概念化、对死亡的否认以及宗教信仰。对于这些学生来说，存在焦虑得分与身份认同混乱、对他人有责任感但害怕与他们情感亲近、认为人与人本质上不同以及不认为自己能在任务或项目中延续生命有关。他们的存在焦虑得分与特定的死亡概念无关，但死亡更有可能被视为冷酷且被否认的。他们的存在焦虑似乎是适应问题的症状，而宗教信仰对此并无帮助。文中还给出了进一步研究的具体建议。
