超越恐惧：基于老年死亡态度的视角

摘要

The psychological health of older adults is an important issue for an aging society. To ad-dress this issue has to take the death attitudes of older adults into consideration. This paper is intended to review the vast literature on older adultsdeath attitude,including its structure and features,various correlates,and its relationship with psychological health. In addition,terror management theory is also described from the perspective of the studies on older adults death attitudes. Previous studies on this issue have such limitations as:neglecting death acceptance;lacking an integrated theory;using limit-ed research methods;overlooking cultural differences;and avoiding tough but key problems.%　　老年心理健康是老龄化社会的重要研究课题，而探讨老年心理健康离不开研究老年死亡态度。文章系统梳理了老年死亡态度的结构和特征、影响因素及其与心理健康的关系。分析了恐惧管理理论对老年死亡态度研究的影响。从轻视死亡接受、缺少理论整合、研究方法单一、忽视文化差异、逃避根本难点等五方面对老年死亡态度研究进行了评价。