Abstract：
OBJECTIVE: To identify whether hospice workers hold unique and theoretically-informative perspectives about death, especially as they relate to terror management processes.
METHODS: Twelve hospice workers from two hospices in Tucson, Arizona, United States, participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview and analytic practices were guided by Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).
RESULTS: Three categories were identified in relation to death attitudes: effects of chronic confrontation with death; reasons for working in hospice; and perceptions of death in others.
CONCLUSIONS: Two theoretically informative trends appeared. First, hospice workers largely manage death anxiety as identified by existing literature with the notable exception that hospice workers overall seem to integrate death and dying into their worldviews as a meaningful category, as opposed to avoiding thinking about death. Second, even among those regularly exposed to death, there seems to be a range across participants on a continuum from avoiding to confronting the topic of death.
METHODS: Twelve hospice workers from two hospices in Tucson, Arizona, United States, participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview and analytic practices were guided by Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).
RESULTS: Three categories were identified in relation to death attitudes: effects of chronic confrontation with death; reasons for working in hospice; and perceptions of death in others.
CONCLUSIONS: Two theoretically informative trends appeared. First, hospice workers largely manage death anxiety as identified by existing literature with the notable exception that hospice workers overall seem to integrate death and dying into their worldviews as a meaningful category, as opposed to avoiding thinking about death. Second, even among those regularly exposed to death, there seems to be a range across participants on a continuum from avoiding to confronting the topic of death.
摘要：
目标：为了确定临终关怀工作者是否对死亡持有独特且理论上提供信息的观点，尤其是与恐怖管理过程有关。
方法：来自图森两个收容所的十二名临终关怀工作者，亚利桑那,美国,参加半结构化面试。采访和分析实践以扎根理论为指导(Glaser&Strauss，1967).
结果：确定了与死亡态度有关的三个类别：慢性对抗死亡的影响；在临终关怀医院工作的原因；以及其他人对死亡的看法。
结论：出现了两个理论上提供信息的趋势。首先,临终关怀工作者在很大程度上管理死亡焦虑，正如现有文献所确定的那样，值得注意的例外是，临终关怀工作者总体上似乎将死亡和死亡纳入他们的世界观作为一个有意义的类别，而不是避免思考死亡。第二,即使是那些经常接触死亡的人，从避免到面对死亡的话题，参与者似乎有一个连续的范围。
方法：来自图森两个收容所的十二名临终关怀工作者，亚利桑那,美国,参加半结构化面试。采访和分析实践以扎根理论为指导(Glaser&Strauss，1967).
结果：确定了与死亡态度有关的三个类别：慢性对抗死亡的影响；在临终关怀医院工作的原因；以及其他人对死亡的看法。
结论：出现了两个理论上提供信息的趋势。首先,临终关怀工作者在很大程度上管理死亡焦虑，正如现有文献所确定的那样，值得注意的例外是，临终关怀工作者总体上似乎将死亡和死亡纳入他们的世界观作为一个有意义的类别，而不是避免思考死亡。第二,即使是那些经常接触死亡的人，从避免到面对死亡的话题，参与者似乎有一个连续的范围。
