Effects of Premature Parental Death on Subjective Life Expectancy, Death Anxiety, and Health Behavior

摘要: Subjective life expectancy, death anxiety, and health behavior were assessed in 36 college students with at least one parent who died prematurely (age 55 or younger) due to illness (PD group) thirty-six matched participants both parents alive (PA group). Participants lost a estimated that their own spans would be shorter than those of other people age-cohort. They also predicted span for themselves did the participants. In groups, participants' Cognitive Affective Life Expectancy differed significantly from each other. PA group, individuals' projection when based on “personal feelings” was higher they estimate “everything is objectively true” about them. PD opposite relationship observed between these two variables, difference magnified subgroup indicated believed the...