Existential Concerns About Death

Existential concerns about death: a qualitative study of dying patients in a Danish hospice.

Research suggests that addressing dying patients' existential concerns can improve their quality of life. We aimed to illuminate dying patients' existential concerns about the impending death through a descriptive analysis of semistructured interviews with 17 patients in Danish hospices. The main findings demonstrated how the patients faced the imminent death without being anxious of death but ...

Natural Disasters and Existential Concerns: A Test of Tillich’s Theory of Existential Anxiety

Existential anxiety is hypothesized to be a core human issue in a great deal of theoretical and philosophical writing. Fostering the empirical understanding of the expression of these concerns may be a valuable addition to the psychological literature on exposure to trauma. The purpose of this study was to test theoretical predictions about the association between different facets of existentia...

An Attachment Perspective on Coping with Existential Concerns

Concerns about peer review process.

I am concerned about the lack of proper scrutiny during the peer review process. Although I exemplify it in one paper in a field in which I have some expertise, I believe that this single case shows severe failure of peer review, and it should not have happened. I refer to the article by Nankivil et al. in the latest edition of IOVS Vol 55 No. 7. There seems to be no evidence of scientific rigo...

Reasoning About Compositions of Concerns

In this paper we propose a framework for defining and reasoning about compositions of concerns, based on multivalued logics. Rather than providing a small set of built-in composition operations, our framework provides a mechanism for constructing arbitrary types of composition. Our multi-valued logic model checker, chek allows us to reason about the properties of compositions of concerns.