French Carrie, Greenauer Nathan, Mello Catherine
a Applied Psychology Program , The Pennsylvania State University , Berks, Reading , Pennsylvania , USA.
b Rehabilitation and Human Services/Applied Psychology Program , The Pennsylvania State University , Berks, Reading , Pennsylvania , USA.
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2017 Apr-Sep;13(2-3):151-172. doi: 10.1080/15524256.2017.1331181. Epub 2017 Jun 14.
Death anxiety is not only experienced by individuals receiving end-of-life care, but also by family members, social workers, and other service providers who support these individuals. Thus, identifying predictors of individual differences in experienced death anxiety levels may have both theoretical and clinical ramifications. The present study assessed the relative influence of religiosity, susceptibility to mortality cues, state and trait anxiety, and demographic factors in the experience of death anxiety through an online survey distributed to members of two online communities related to end-of-life care. Results indicated that cognitive and emotional susceptibility to mortality cues, as well as gender, predicted differences in death anxiety. Conversely, religiosity and age did not increase the predictive power of the model. Thus, death anxiety may be a function of emotional, cognitive, and sociocultural factors that interact in complex, but predictable, ways to modulate the response to mortality cues that occur in one's life.
死亡焦虑不仅为接受临终关怀的个体所体验，也存在于家庭成员、社会工作者以及支持这些个体的其他服务提供者之中。因此，识别个体死亡焦虑水平差异的预测因素可能具有理论和临床意义。本研究通过向与临终关怀相关的两个在线社区成员发放在线调查问卷，评估了宗教信仰、对死亡线索的易感性、状态焦虑和特质焦虑以及人口统计学因素在死亡焦虑体验中的相对影响。结果表明，对死亡线索的认知和情感易感性以及性别可预测死亡焦虑的差异。相反，宗教信仰和年龄并未增加该模型的预测能力。因此，死亡焦虑可能是情感、认知和社会文化因素相互作用的结果，这些因素以复杂但可预测的方式相互作用，调节对人生中出现的死亡线索的反应。
