Husain Waqar, Malik Manahil Mehmood, Shakeel Amna, Riaz Aliya, Jahrami Haitham
Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Government Hospitals, Manama, Bahrain.
Omega (Westport). 2024 Aug 4:302228241272502. doi: 10.1177/00302228241272502.
Death anxiety has been linked to several psychopathological conditions. However, the causes, comorbidity, and differential diagnosis of death anxiety is unexplored. This paper stands out by identifying common predictors of death anxiety and exploring the potential of death anxiety as a predictor for other psychological conditions. The paper reports the findings of four consecutive studies that involved a total of 2291 conveniently selected participants including 861 men and 1430 women. We focused on clarifying both the predictors of death anxiety and the psychopathological consequences emerging from it. Our findings established depression, anxiety, stress, fear of aging, and reduced life satisfaction as predictors of death anxiety. Psychosocial illness, sleep disturbances, aggression, and daily hassles were established as the adverse outcomes of death anxiety. Fear of aging was the most significant predictor of death anxiety and daily hassles emerged as the most significant adverse consequence of death anxiety.
死亡焦虑与多种精神病理状况有关。然而，死亡焦虑的成因、共病情况及鉴别诊断仍未得到充分研究。本文通过识别死亡焦虑的常见预测因素，并探讨死亡焦虑作为其他心理状况预测指标的潜力而脱颖而出。该论文报告了四项连续研究的结果，这些研究总共涉及2291名方便选取的参与者，其中包括861名男性和1430名女性。我们专注于阐明死亡焦虑的预测因素以及由此产生的精神病理后果。我们的研究结果确定抑郁、焦虑、压力、对衰老的恐惧以及生活满意度降低是死亡焦虑的预测因素。心理社会疾病、睡眠障碍、攻击性和日常琐事被确定为死亡焦虑的不良后果。对衰老的恐惧是死亡焦虑最显著的预测因素，而日常琐事则成为死亡焦虑最显著的不良后果。
