Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, No. 116, Heping 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 802, Taiwan.
Department of Psychology, School of Educational Science, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China.
Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 17;12(1):10209. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14527-w.
In the present paper, we report two studies examining the relationships among renunciation of desires, death anxiety, and mental health. In the first study, we constructed the Desire Questionnaire (DQ), which measures success in renouncing certain desire. The DQ has satisfactory psychometric properties. In the second study, 501 adults from a Chinese society ranging in age from 17 to 84 years (M = 35.58, SD = 14.76) completed the DQ, the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), which measures mental health and the presence of psychiatric symptoms. As predicted, DQ had significant negative correlations with both DAS (p < 0.05) and CHQ (p < 0.01). DAS had a significant positive correlation with CHQ (p < 0.01). In the linear mediation model, DAS was found to partially mediate the relationship between DQ and CHQ (β = - 0.18, p < 0.001). These results suggest that the negative effect of poor control of desires on mental health can be partially accounted for by death anxiety. These findings imply that training in eliminating desires can be a successful strategy to improve mental health. These results also support the Nonself Theory as a theory of death anxiety and show its relevance to the relationship between nonself and mental health.
在本文中，我们报告了两项研究，旨在探讨欲望放弃、死亡焦虑与心理健康之间的关系。在第一项研究中，我们构建了欲望问卷（DQ），用以衡量对特定欲望的放弃是否成功。DQ 具有良好的心理测量学性质。在第二项研究中，我们对来自中国社会的 501 名年龄在 17 岁至 84 岁之间的成年人（M=35.58，SD=14.76）进行了调查，他们填写了 DQ、死亡焦虑量表（DAS）和中国健康问卷（CHQ），该问卷用于衡量心理健康和精神症状的存在。正如预期的那样，DQ 与 DAS（p<0.05）和 CHQ（p<0.01）均呈显著负相关。DAS 与 CHQ 呈显著正相关（p<0.01）。在线性中介模型中，发现 DAS 部分中介了 DQ 与 CHQ 之间的关系（β=-0.18，p<0.001）。这些结果表明，对欲望控制不良对心理健康的负面影响可以部分归因于死亡焦虑。这些发现意味着消除欲望的训练可能是改善心理健康的有效策略。这些结果还支持非我理论作为死亡焦虑理论，并表明其与非我和心理健康之间的关系相关。
