Death Anxiety and Well-Being; Coping With Life-Threatening Events

ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-2802-3656

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Traumatology

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Abstract

Research was conducted among people who have experienced trauma to see the influence of coping factors on death anxiety, PTSD, and psychiatric comorbidity. The intent was to consider the role of death anxiety in relationship to PTSD and mental health among people who have experienced a life-threatening event. It examined both self-efficacy and religious coping as possible factors of death anxiety resilience in relation to trauma. This study was conducted using undergraduate university students in Lithuania. The study (N = 104) did not find evidence to support the significance of religious coping as important factor; however, self-efficacy emerged as significantly related to psychiatric comorbidity and death anxiety. However the results found that self-efficacy did not act as a mediating factor and was independently related to death anxiety and psychiatric comorbidity. Results were discussed in light of theories regarding death anxiety and the agentic model. © The Author(s) 2013.

ISSN

1085-9373

Publisher

American Psychological Association (APA)

Volume

19

Issue

4

First Page

280

Last Page

291

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

and religious coping, death anxiety, PTSD, self-efficacy

Scopus ID

84890510557

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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