The stability of older adults' judgments of fates better and worse than death

被引：17
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作者：
Lockhart, LK
Ditto, PH
Danks, JH
Coppola, KM
Smucker, WD
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Psychol & Social Behav, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[2] Texas A&M Univ, Kingsville, TX USA
[3] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[4] Monmouth Univ, W Long Branch, NJ USA
[5] Summa Hlth Syst, Akron, OH USA
来源：
DEATH STUDIES | 2001年 / 25卷 / 04期
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D O I：
10.1080/07481180151143079
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B84 [心理学];
学科分类号：
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
Decisions about specific life-sustaining medical treatments have been found to be only moderately stable over time. This study examined whether more general judgments, such as whether a particular health condition is better or worse than death, would exhibit greater stability. Fifty adults (aged 65 yrs and older) made judgements about the perceived quality of life (QOL) possible in a number of hypothetical states of impaired impaired health and their desire to live or die (LOD) in each state. Judgments were made twice fron 5 to 16
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页数：19
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