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Religion and Spirituality in Online Suicide Bereavement KU Leuven
Background: Religion and spirituality can be valuable resources in coping with bereavement. There is a paucity of studies focusing specifically on their role in suicide bereavement, although there are indications that religion/spirituality can be helpful for suicide survivors. Aims: The study explores the role of religion and/or spirituality in suicide bereavement by analyzing this theme in online memorials dedicated to suicide victims. Method: ...
Measuring religious attitudes in secularized Western European context: A psychometric analysis of the post-critical belief scale KU Leuven
Wulff's two-dimensional model of approaches to religion was an inspiration for the development of the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS), an instrument measuring religious attitudes, i.e., “paradigms of religious belief structure” in a secularised Western European context. The scale has been frequently used in psychological studies, has undergone psychometric analyses and modifications, and has been translated into several languages. The current ...
Life span issues and traumatic death KU Leuven
© 2013 Association for Death Education and Counseling, The Thanatology Association. The experience of death has changed dramatically over the centuries. Life expectancy has increased tremendously, and this phenomenon, together with the decline in extended families sharing the same residence, has resulted in people today having less experience of death of any kind. For example, in one parish in London in the 1580s, for every 100 babies born, ...
Suicide and suicidal behavior in Australia KU Leuven
The present chapter reviews epidemiological research on suicidal behavior in Australia, in the population as a whole and in Indigenous Australians and immigrants. Australia has proposed a National Suicide Prevention Strategy, and this is briefly described. © 2012 Bentham Science Publishers. All rights reserved.
Suicide in young men KU Leuven
Suicide is second to only accidental death as the leading cause of mortality in young men across the world. Although suicide rates for young men have fallen in some high-income and middle-income countries since the 1990s, wider mortality measures indicate that rates remain high in specific regions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic groups within those nations where rates have fallen, and that young men account for a substantial proportion of the ...
Active sport participation, sport spectatorship, and suicidal behaviour KU Leuven
The present chapter reviews the existing evidence regarding the link between physical activity, active and passive involvement in sports, and suicidal behavior, and presents possible explanations regarding this relationship as well as their application for suicide prevention. © 2012 Bentham Science Publishers. All rights reserved.