Associations between religiosity and death attitudes: Different between Christians and Buddhists?

Wong, Lok Ping; Fung, Helene H.; Jiang, Da

doi:10.1037/a0037993

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“…According to the current study's findings, both Muslims and Christians share the same or similar attitudes regarding death. This finding is congruent with the results of Wong and others (2015), who concluded that religion has little effect on people's attitudes and behaviours regarding death (Wong, 2015).…”

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confidence: 91%

Similar Attitudes Toward Death among Muslims and Christians in Iraq

Ahmed¹

2022

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Objective: Knowing people's attitudes towards death is useful in examining people's level of flexibility, problem management, and self-care. The religious and related cultural background of a person may affect their attitude towards death. The current study evaluated Christian and Muslim respondents' attitudes towards death in Iraqi society. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 individuals from the two main religious groups (Muslim and Christian) were groupmatched for gender, age, marital status, and personal monthly income. The attitude towards death was measured through a death attitude profile-revised questionnaire, and findings were analysed using SPSS version 20 by applying Pearson correlation and central tendencies. Results: Findings revealed that both religions' followers have no major fear of death and, at the same time, a reasonable approach to acceptance towards death. Overall, religion had no significant effect on participant attitudes towards death, which means both religions' followers share the same approaches and attitudes towards death. Conclusion:From the current research work, it can be concluded that there is no significant impact of religion on individual attitudes towards death and both religions' followers have no major death anxiety. Muslims and Christians have reasonably accepting attitudes towards death as indicated by five-dimensional attitudes toward death scores. Future studies should focus on a larger population from different cultures and religious backgrounds to generalise these findings to other populations and cultural settings.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Similar Attitudes Toward Death among Muslims and Christians in Iraq

Ahmed¹

2022

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“…28,30 With a positive religious attitude, the individual believes that whatever situation happens to her/his, the result will be good and has the motivation to make her/his feel good in psychological terms, and death anxiety may decrease. 31,33 As a matter of fact, this study found that those who expressed the category of religious belief high had less death anxiety.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…A positive religious attitude decreases death anxiety. 30,33 Although studies are reporting that religious orientation decreases death anxiety in the literature 29,30 , some studies have reported that it does not affect death anxiety. 15,16 It was a common claim in the literature that a high level of religious attitude, in general, helps to distract the individual from stress and anxiety, alleviates negative feelings, and facilitates the solution of problems.…”

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Τhe effect of the religious attitudes on the death attitudes and death anxiety in elderly intensive care patients: a cross-sectional study

Menekli

Doğan

2021

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Background: Negative death attitudes and death fear were reported at a high level among intensive care patients. Research indicates that nurses should know the factors affecting the death attitudes and death anxiety in intensive care patients to reduce these high levels of anxiety and negative attitudes. Religions have a strong relationship with death.Aim: This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the effect of religious attitudes on death attitudes and death anxiety in elderly intensive care patients.Methods: The data of the study were collected between January 2019 and January 2020 in the intensive care unit of a university hospital in a province located in the east of Turkey. A total of 185 elderly patients participated in the study. Patient Identification Form, Ok-Religious Attitude Scale (ORAS), the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and Death Attitudes Profile-Revised (DAP) were used for data collection. IBM SPSS version 25.0 was used for data analysis.Results: Most of the patients (88.6%) were at high level of self-reported religious attitudes. The mean DAS score of the patients was 9.02 ± 1.64, DAP was 120.40 ± 23.70, and ORAS was 31.25 ± 2.90. According to regression analysis, the increase in ORAS scores decreased the DAS score and increased the DAP score (p <0.05).Conclusion: There was a negative relationship between religious attitudes and death anxiety and a positive relationship between religious attitudes and attitudes towards death in elderly patients in intensive care units. Nurses should evaluate the patients’ religious attitudes while they plan interventions to reduce patients’ death anxiety or to develop positive attitudes toward death in these patients.

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“…Instruments were developed based on their concepts, including the DAP-R. Christians should not fear or avoid death, but accept death, since it goes beyond a process for them, it brings out the promise for eternity (resurrection in Christ). 40 In addition, Fear of Death averaged very close to Acceptance as Transcendence. This dimension is characterized by anxiety caused by thoughts and feelings about death and the dying process.…”

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confidence: 94%

Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Death Attitude Profile Revised (Dap-R) for Use in Brazil

Machado

Oriá

Fernandes

et al. 2019

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Objectives: to perform the translation, cultural adaptation, and content validation of Death Attitude Profile Revised to the Brazilian context. Method: a methodological study that comprised the following stages: initial translation, synthesis of these translations, back translation, expert committee and pre-test conducted with 40 nursing students. The cultural adaptation process, which preceded content validation, carried out with three expert judges. Results: the Brazilian version of Death Attitude Profile Revised maintained semantic, idiomatic, conceptual and experiential equivalences to the original version. The final content validity coefficient of the scale reached 0.85 for language clarity and theoretical relevance and 0.86 for practical relevance. Regarding the theoretical dimensions, a substantial Kappa mean value among evaluators was obtained (0.709). Data analysis on internal consistency, performed by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient, displayed a reliability considered high (α = 0.892). Conclusion: it is extremely important to have an instrument adapted to the Brazilian reality that allows for measuring the attitudes towards death from both a positive and negative point of view because, by identifying these attitudes, interventions and training are designed to improve the care process in nursing. Thus, the cultural adaptation process resulted in a reliable adapted version with valid content. However, it is necessary to test the psychometric properties before using in care practice and research.

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Associations between religiosity and death attitudes: Different between Christians and Buddhists?

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Similar Attitudes Toward Death among Muslims and Christians in Iraq

Similar Attitudes Toward Death among Muslims and Christians in Iraq

Τhe effect of the religious attitudes on the death attitudes and death anxiety in elderly intensive care patients: a cross-sectional study

Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Death Attitude Profile Revised (Dap-R) for Use in Brazil

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