The purpose of this study is to investigate some of adolescent attitudes toward death and to obtain the basic data available for resolution of death anxiety in adolescents. The data were collected through questionnaire survey. Subjects served for this study consisted of 1,404 junior and senior high school students in Korea, including both 699 males and 705 females random sampling from Korean student population using census method. The results of the analysis were as follows: 1. The total numbers of the associated words related with death in the adolescent students were 5,969, and the total kinds of them were 133 types. Among them, the highest associated word was for the word ‘suicide’ with 40.5%, followed by‘homicide’ with 25.0%, ‘death’ with 21.5%, ‘disease’ with 17.4%, ‘knife’ with 13.7% and others, in the order named. 2. When arbitrarily classified as the 11 categories from total 133 types of words association terminology, the highest one was 31.8% for ‘accident responses’, followed by 14.8% in funeral responses,. 12.1% in. ‘religion responses’, 11.2^ in ‘disease responses’, 7.7% in ‘grief responses’, 6.5% in ‘life word responses*, 5.1% in ‘conflict responses’, 4.3% in ‘nature responses，, 3.0% in ‘color responses’, 1. in ^human responses7, and 0.9% in economy responses’, in these orders respectively. 3. With respect to the associated words male students tended to perceive death as the masculine and active meaning such as ‘war,, ‘gun’ and‘homicide’, whereas female students tended to regard death as the feminine and passive pattern such as ‘suicide’. With regard to the associated words urban students tended to see death as the symbolic such as ‘paradise，,‘fear，,‘dark’,‘grief， and‘afterlife，, whereas rural students tended to perceive death as the concrete such as ‘sucide’, accident,, ‘disease，and drug using by the purpose of suicide. Finally, the senior students per-ceiving death as symbolic meaning, the junior as concrete meaning.
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