Page 17 of 25

 

Myronchak K. INFLUENCE PRACTICE AWARENESS OF OWN DEATH ON THE ORGANIZATION OF PERSONS LIFE EXPERIENCE

 Myronchak Kateryna, Junior Researcher, Institute of Social and Political Psychology, NAPS of Ukraine, ul. St. Andrew, 15, 04070 m. Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To link to this article:

DOI https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2016.3.8993
Abstract

 The article awareness of their own mortality considered as a psychological practice, which provides training influence the consciousness of the individual in order to increase its overall tanatology competence that allows you to: expand the knowledge of death, to understand and to comprehend their own tanatology experience to meet their own anxieties and find inner personal resources to work with them. It is shown that the practice of awareness of their own mortality provokes internal personal transformation, to stimulate changes in mid-life system updates the feelings, thoughts, emotions, expands the range of ideas about themselves and their life-world. In our study, the fear of death as a way of life experience applied system of quality procedures (associative experiment, a survey with open questions, unfinished sentences, written narrative, depth semi-structured interviews), which may be a set of practices, awareness of mortality. Through analysis of the psychological effect of the study identified the following types of respondents: positive-interested (48%), ambivalent-conflict (29%), negative-negatory (14%) and avoiding neutral (9%). Given the fact that most of the respondents received a positive psychological effect on research with a clear intention to change in your life, you rightly talk about the relevance and feasibility of attracting young people to this kind of practice as an awareness of their own mortality to improve the overall tanatology competence.

 Key words:  awareness of death;  experience;  mortality;  practice;  qualitative methods;  transformation.

 

 References

  1. Romenez V. A. (2003). Zhyzn’ i smert’: postizhenie razumom i veroj [Life and death: comprehension of reason and faith]. Lybіd’ (rus).
  2. Tytarenko T. M. (2013). Osobystіsnі praktyky konstruyuvannya zhyttya [Personality practices design life] Psychologіchnі nauky: problemy і zdobutki : zb. nauk. statej vyp. 4., 226–238 (ukr). 
  3. Chistopolskaya K. A., Enikolopov S. N., Nikolaev E. L., G. I. Semikin, Gremelashvili V. V., Kazantsev V. N. (2014). Otnoshenie k smerti u studentov meditsinskih, gumanitarnyih i tehnicheskih spetsialnostey: vopros suitsidalnogo riska [The attitude towards death in students of medical, humanities and technical disciplines: the question of suicide risk] // Psychological science and education psyedu.ru. 2014. Volume 6. No. 3. P. 227-242, DOI:10.17759/psyedu.2014060322 (rus).
  4. Yalom I. (1999). Ekzistenzialnaya psichoterapiya [Existential therapy] Klass (rus).
  5. Cozzolino, P. J. (2006). Death contemplation, growth, and defense: Converging evidence of dual systems? Psychological Inquiry, 17, 278-287 (eng).
  6. Greenberg, J., Martens, A., Jonas, E., Eisenstadt, E., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (2003). Detoxifying thoughts of death: Eliminating the potential for anxiety eliminates the effects of mortality salience on worldview defense. Psychological Science, 14, 516-519 (eng).
  7. Wong, P. T. P., & Tomer. A. (2011). Beyond terror and denial: The positive psychology of death acceptance. Death Studies, 35, 99-106 (eng).


Full Text: PDF (ukr)