کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8257424 1534412 2018 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Is death anxiety more closely linked with optimism or pessimism among older adults?
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا اضطراب مرگ بیشتر در ارتباط با خوش بینی یا بدبینی در میان افراد مسن بیشتر است؟
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی سالمندی
چکیده انگلیسی
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether death anxiety is more closely linked with optimism or pessimism among older adults. Participants consisted of community-dwelling older adults (N = 253; 73.1% female) in the southern U.S. Both optimism and pessimism demonstrated a bivariate association with death anxiety; however, when considering optimism and pessimism together-and after controlling for age, gender, physical health, and mental health-optimism was not associated with death anxiety, while pessimism was associated with higher death anxiety. Post hoc analyses found a unique relationship between pessimism and greater fear of the unknown. Perhaps, given the inevitability of death, limiting negative expectancies is more salient to death anxiety than having positive expectancies, and pessimism may be particularly associated with existential and religious concerns.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics - Volume 77, July–August 2018, Pages 169-173
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