Death anxiety among New Zealanders: the predictive role of gender and marital status

MacLeod, Rod; Crandall, Jacqueline; Wilson, Donna M.; Austin, Philip

doi:10.1080/13674676.2016.1187590

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“…Previous studies which have examined gender-based differences in death anxiety under non-pandemic conditions have shown women to experience higher levels of death anxiety than men (Azaiza Ron Shoham and Gigini 2010;MacLeod Crandall Wilson and Austin 2016). These studies relied on the emotional expressiveness hypothesis to explain their findings, stating that females are more aware of their feelings and more willing to acknowledge their fears explicitly than are males (Azaiza et al 2010).…”

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Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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This descriptive study aimed to examine the association of death anxiety with religious coping and spiritual well-being among 248 community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief Arab religious coping scale, the Arabic version of the spiritual well-being Scale, and the Arabic Scale of death anxiety were used to measure religious coping, spiritual well-being, and death anxiety, respectively. The majority of the participating older adults were found to have low levels of religious coping and spiritual well-being and high levels of death anxiety. Further, in comparison to male older adults, female older adults were found to have higher levels of religious coping and lower levels of death anxiety. Moreover, in comparison to widowed older adults, married older adults were found to have higher levels of death anxiety. After controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, religious coping, and spiritual well-being were found to be significant predictors of death anxiety in older adults.

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Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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“…30,31 However, in one of the few New Zealand studies on death anxiety, McLeod et al suggest that highly religious people are more anxious about death and highly spiritual people are less so. 20 The problems associated with the vagueness of the definition of spirituality have already been mentioned. Perhaps spirituality is in some way akin to IR, a belief in some kind of good and forgiving power and a life fully informed by these views.…”

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“…One recent study is conflicting but suggests religious belief is actively unhelpful. 20 Although many of the indigenous Maori population subscribe to the spiritually holistic Ratana faith and remain deeply religious, 21 New Zealand is generally regarded as a secular society. 22 For people facing death in such a society, religion may have little or no power to provide hope.…”

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“…Participants were young college students; people at a very early stage of their illness, 23 or even, as in McLeod's New Zealand study, people representative of the whole New Zealand public regardless of health or age. 20 Commentators have stressed the need to examine populations actually facing imminent death, with a life expectancy of just a few months. 1,2,8 This study aims to see if patterns of religiosity, death anxiety, and hope previously noted in work done in other countries are similar in a sample population from a secular society like New Zealand.…”

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Patterns of Religiosity, Death Anxiety, and Hope in a Population of Community-Dwelling Palliative Care Patients in New Zealand—What Gives Hope If Religion Can’t?

Byrne

Morgan

2019

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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This study examines the prevalence of religiosity, death anxiety, and hope in a sample of New Zealand community hospice patients in the last 6 months of life. It explores the factors triggering distress or hope and examines whether religiosity is protective against death anxiety for this population. Early studies showed religious faith helps relieve death anxiety, but later work suggests this may only be the case in societies which are generally religious. Very little research has been conducted on this topic in New Zealand, from which recent censuses indicate is an increasingly secular country. If religion is not an important source of hope for dying, it is important to explore what factors do help relieve existential anxiety and to consider their clinical relevance. This study confirmed that organized religion was not a major support factor. Yet several people who declared themselves nonreligious scored highly for intrinsic religiosity and were among the most hopeful participants. This could suggest that spirituality may be more relevant than organized religion in relieving existential distress. The main source of hope for most participants was joyful memories and meaningful relationships. Fear of being a burden and of causing family suffering were the most significant causes of distress. Systematic spiritual assessment for all patients, not just those with a declared religious faith, a biography service, and psychotherapy, may all have a role in managing death anxiety at the end of life. Further work with larger and more diverse populations would be needed to confirm these findings.

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“…Clug and Sinha conceptualized death acceptance as approximate and relative comfort along with individual awareness of personal mortality [18]. Death acceptance approach expresses belief in good af-terlife [19]. Niemeyer showed that neutral acceptance and death acceptance have a positive correlation with psychological health and have a negative correlation with depression.…”

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The Relationship Between Workplace Spirituality, Job Satisfaction and Attitude Toward Death Among the Staff of the Emergency Department

Bakhtiari

Fathi

Ahagh

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The present study was carried out aimed to examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and job satisfaction. It also aimed to determine the intermediary role of attitude toward death among emergency department staff in Shiraz city. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive and correlation study, the statistical population included 90 staff of the Shiraz Emergency department who were selected through simple random sampling in 2016-2017. Spirituality questionnaires in the workplace, life satisfaction and attitude towards death were used in this research, and the data were analyzed by SPSS and EMOS software. Results: The results of the data analysis indicated that workplace spirituality had a negative effect (β=-0.32, P=0.001) on neutral acceptance and a positive effect (β=0.21, P=0.03) on active acceptance and life satisfaction (β=0.19, P=0.05). Furthermore, out of the attitudes toward death scales, only neutral acceptance could play a mediating role between workplace spirituality and life satisfaction (β=-0.27, P=0.00). Model fitting indicators show that the model has a good fit (X 2 =0.86, GFA=0.97, CFI=0.99). Conclusion: The results show that workplace spirituality is compatible with life satisfaction and the mediating role of attitude toward death among the staff of the emergency department.

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Death anxiety among New Zealanders: the predictive role of gender and marital status

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patterns of Religiosity, Death Anxiety, and Hope in a Population of Community-Dwelling Palliative Care Patients in New Zealand—What Gives Hope If Religion Can’t?

The Relationship Between Workplace Spirituality, Job Satisfaction and Attitude Toward Death Among the Staff of the Emergency Department

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