%0 Journal Article
%T The Smolensk Disaster and the Dynamics of Death-Related Thoughts Accessibility
%A Tomasz Grzyb
%A Dariusz Dolinski
%J International Journal of Social Science Studies
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.11114/ijsss.v1i1.34
%X The article describes a study concerning death-related thoughts following the crash of the Polish Tu-154M plane with the Polish president and other members of an official Polish delegation on-board. In the study, the DRT (Death Related Thoughts) scale was used. The results showed that thoughts about death in a sample of Polish students (N=120) increased immediately after the plane crash, and after a few weeks the level measured was even higher. The obtained results also show a relatively strong positive correlation between the results of the DRT scale and the amount of information about the presidential plane crash presented in the massmedia.
%U http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/34