School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
School of Humanities, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Omega (Westport). 2024 Jun;89(2):683-700. doi: 10.1177/00302228221078101. Epub 2022 Mar 25.
In this study, 349 Han and 217 Tibetan college students were investigated via the Templer Death Anxiety Scale in order to assess the potential class and influencing factors of death anxiety among them. In addition, Mplus software was used to analyse the latent categories of their death anxiety, and an R3STEP approach was adopted to perform a multinomial logistic regression of its influencing factors. Whilst the results of the former indicated that there are two latent classes, respectively, defined as 'high death anxiety type' (Han 65.20%; Tibetan 30.30%) and 'low death anxiety type' (Han 34.80%; Tibetan 69.70%), the latter demonstrated that compared with the 'low death anxiety type', the occurrence ratio of the 'high death anxiety type' was 47.00 and 34.04 percentage points higher with each increase in age. Furthermore, the stress and anxiety of Han and Tibetan college students were found to constitute factors that affect death anxiety. More specifically, the death anxiety of Tibetan college students was determined to be deeply influenced by a belief in the afterlife.
本研究采用 Templer 死亡焦虑量表对 349 名汉族和 217 名藏族大学生进行调查，旨在评估他们死亡焦虑的潜在类别和影响因素。此外，使用 Mplus 软件分析了他们死亡焦虑的潜在类别，并采用 R3STEP 方法对其影响因素进行了多分类逻辑回归分析。结果表明，存在两个潜在类别，分别定义为“高死亡焦虑型”（汉族 65.20%，藏族 30.30%）和“低死亡焦虑型”（汉族 34.80%，藏族 69.70%）。后者表明，与“低死亡焦虑型”相比，年龄每增加 1 岁，“高死亡焦虑型”的发生比分别高 47.00 和 34.04 个百分点。此外，汉族和藏族大学生的压力和焦虑被发现是影响死亡焦虑的因素。具体来说，藏族大学生的死亡焦虑深受来世信仰的影响。
