Mandal Satchit Prasun, Pandey Vijyendra, Bonal Raghavendra B, Sharma Abhishek, Astha Arora, Rajesh Viju, Saha Proshanto Kr
Department of Psychology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Department of Psychology, Central University of Karnataka, Karnataka, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Aug 29;13:304. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1507_23. eCollection 2024.
Anecdotally, the concept of death consistently evokes profound unease. This study explores the intricate relationship between individuals' attitudes toward death and the associated anxiety, introducing a two-step model that posits dispositional mindfulness and tranquil ego as mediators.
We used a correlational design in this study and assessed 209 Indian adults (111 males and 98 females) who recovered from corona symptoms on self-report measures of attitudes toward death, death anxiety, dispositional mindfulness, and tranquil ego. Bivariate correlational analyses and path analysis were used to analyze the data.
Findings revealed that attitudes toward death involving fear, avoidance, approach, and escape acceptance of death correlated positively with death anxiety. Dispositional mindfulness and tranquil ego correlated negatively with death anxiety. Path analyses with percentile bootstrapping supported our hypothesis and showed that dispositional mindfulness and tranquil ego sequentially mediated the relationship.
These findings indicate that various aspects of attitudes toward death differentially predict death anxiety. Moreover, the relationship between death attitudes and death anxiety is potentially mediated by dispositional mindfulness and a tranquil ego. The findings were discussed in light of existing literature.
据传，死亡的概念一直引发深深的不安。本研究探讨了个体对死亡的态度与相关焦虑之间的复杂关系，引入了一个两步模型，该模型假定特质正念和宁静自我为中介变量。
本研究采用相关设计，对209名从新冠症状中康复的印度成年人（111名男性和98名女性）进行了评估，采用自我报告测量法来测量他们对死亡的态度、死亡焦虑、特质正念和宁静自我。采用双变量相关分析和路径分析来分析数据。
研究结果显示，对死亡的恐惧、回避、趋近和逃避接受等态度与死亡焦虑呈正相关。特质正念和宁静自我与死亡焦虑呈负相关。百分位数自抽样的路径分析支持了我们的假设，并表明特质正念和宁静自我依次介导了这种关系。
这些研究结果表明，对死亡态度的各个方面对死亡焦虑的预测存在差异。此外，死亡态度与死亡焦虑之间的关系可能由特质正念和宁静自我介导。根据现有文献对研究结果进行了讨论。
