Investigation of Simple and Multiple Relations between Death Anxiety, Symbolic Immortality and Gratitude
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Abstract:
Death anxiety is a main emotion in the Terror Management Theory. According to the TMT, death anxiety is cause of the symbolic immortality and symbolic immortality has a connection to gratitude in some ideas and action issues, the aim of this study was an investigation of relation between death anxiety, symbolic immortality and gratitude.
Method
This study was a Correlation and regression study in student universities. The clustered sample of this study was 135 girls of Student Payam-e-noor and Azad Universities that completed Gratitude Questionnaire-6 items (GQ-6), sense of Symbolic Immortality Scale (SSIS) and Death Anxiety Scale (DAS). The results evaluated by descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and simple linear regression. Results
The results show that there is a positive significant correlation between gratitude and symbolic immortality, biosocial, creative, spiritual, transcendence and natural symbolic immortality. There was negative and significant correlation between death anxiety and symbolic immortality, and symbolic immortality was a predictor of death anxiety. Conclusion
In this study, symbolic immortality had a significant correlation with gratitude, and symbolic immortality was predictor of death anxiety.Keywords:
Language:
Persian
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Journal of Excellence in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Volume:4 Issue: 13, 2015
Pages:
60 to 69
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