Death anxiety in young adults as a function of religious orientation, guilt, and separation-individuation conflict.
Seventy undergraduate participants between the ages of 19 and 30 were assessed with measures of death anxiety, religious orientation, separation--individuation conflict, and two dimensions of guilt (need for reparation and fear of punishment). A multiple regression with death anxiety as the criterion variable revealed the following variables, listed in order of their contributions to R2, to be significant predictors: fear of punishment, extrinsic religious orientation, need for reparation, and separation--individuation conflict. A model of death anxiety for young adults that addresses the developmental tasks of this stage is proposed.
Swanson
J L
JL
University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA.
Byrd
K R
KR
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012067:Religion