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Victor Cicirelli filled in the research gap between the areas of gerontology , thanatology , and psychology by conducting a research on the older persons view on death and dying . He published the results of his research in the books titled Older Adults ' Views on Death for the readers to be enlightened and to understand how older adults perceptions of death affect their end-of-life decisions . The research gap based from his review of related studies was in the field

of thanatology , a branch of learning concerned with death and its dimensions , meanings , and associations . His area of research focused on the thoughts , feelings , and attitudes of older persons in relation to death

Cicirelli conducted an empirical study of 109 adults of ages 70 years and older in a community in central Indiana . The population sample was composed of more white people than the African-American citizens in Indiana . Sixteen of the participants were male and the remaining were women . This group was further categorized into five age groups , and by education , socioeconomic status , marital status , employment , and occupational level . He also subdivided the white participants into high and low socioeconomic status groups in to identify a group similar in education and occupational level to the African-Americans participating in the study . The goal of the research was to identify the variables that affected their views in death

The first phase of Cicirelli 's data gathering used validated instruments and quantitative analysis to relate results to demographic and contextual variables . To get more insights from the older adults open-ended interviews were conducted . The data analysis using qualitative techniques used to identify research themes and further relate them to the gender , ethnicity , and socioeconomic status of the sample population . Using a creative mix of quantitative interviews with structured response categories as well as open-ended qualitative _View on Death

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interviews , which allowed the respondents to speak in their own words Cicirelli forms a web of data , which strengthens his study and adds considerable flesh to the findings

Cicirelli adapted the available and present scales , or developed ones based used in the review of related studies , and quantified the three groups of notions as the foci of the study . First , apprehension and worry of passing away , is the anxiety experienced in daily life caused by the anticipation of the state in which one is dead (Cicirelli 2002 . Four dimensions utilized this impression : fear of the dying process , worry of being destroyed , fear of the unknown , and fear for considerable others . Second , contemplations of the dying process scrutinize matters that a person in the last stages of a terminal illness might have (Cicirelli , 2002 , particularly the feelings of dying they would be expecting to experience if they were in the infirmary with terminal cancer and had five more days to live . Third the individual adults ' connotation of bereavement are primarily cognitive interpretations of objects and events in the environment and occur prior to and...