Death-is-life-enhancing: Adaptation and validation of the Norwegian Death Mindsets Measure (NDMM).
While existing psychological frameworks and their accompanying measures focus on death as anxiety-inducing and debilitating, we highlight an overlooked perspective of death—that death can be a basis for living with more meaning and presence. The present research adapts and validates the Death Mindse...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 290 - 300 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2025
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