Death anxiety and a Taoist orientation in two cultures

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2006-12-01

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Zeyrek, Emek Yuce
Lester, David
Alpan, Erkan

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A negative association between having a Taoist orientation to life and death anxiety was found for a sample of 99 American students but not in a sample of 100 Turkish students.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66861

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PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS

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https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.103.3.778

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E. Y. Zeyrek, D. Lester, and E. Alpan, “Death anxiety and a Taoist orientation in two cultures,” PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, pp. 778–778, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66861.