psychological anxiety

psychological anxiety

Death anxiety among the elderly, the impact of children

Psychological Research Journal, 1998, vol. 42, No. 1, p: 32-34

INTRODUCTION

The fear of death became a topic of psychological interest in late 1950. Since its creation "Thanatology" has been a multidisciplinary field including contributions from all disciplines. The definition of death anxiety was the most troublesome task for a researcher today. In the view of previous commentators, as Kastenbaum and Costa (1977) a lot of confusion in the literature on attitudes of death can be attributed to exchange the "neglected" fear "and" anxiety ", which means that each different approaches, for example, if the fear reaction is a real danger, realistic anxiety refers to a more neurotic which is disproportionate to any external threat (Choron, 1974). Peterson (1980) concluded that the study of death and dying "is very limited, both in terms of methodology and theory.

Death is the reality in adulthood, adolescence, it can still be considered a foreigner, but with age has come to be regarded as a frequent travel companion side of life (Stillion, 1995). Lieberman and Tobin (1980) argue that the elderly do not generally have the same reluctance to discuss death and May, openly address concerns about mortality, and review their lives. They suggested that older people may simply have accumulated enough Event life unpleasant in recent years seem to die less traumatic. Sinha (1971) states that "fear of death in elderly is the result of psychological deterioration.

Kogan and Wallach (1961) found that adults of all ages at death classified as the most harmful to a wide range of concepts, but each death evaluated negatively, older people score more positive than others. Mullins & Lopez (1982), evidence shows that age (75 +) may be more anxious than the death of their young age (60-75). Always not enough evidence to provide a safe interpretation of the major concerns of respondents declining mortality.

Seniors with emotionally healthy, married and with greater numbers of children who were considered lower death anxiety (Baum and Boxley, 1984). Seniors perceived as time delay and persons living in institutions tend to feel more anxious about death (Baum, 1983). Links with old family and more satisfying life satisfaction scores were less death anxiety (Tate, 1982).

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

Literature Review the fear of death leads to the conclusion that the search has not done much, both abroad and in India to study the role of children in the experience of death anxiety. Therefore, this study attempted to determine the influence of children on the experience of death anxiety among the elderly. We have already shown that the presence of child outcomes increasingly low death anxiety among the elderly (Baum & Boxley, 1984).

METHOD

Sample

Sample of 30 men and 30 women aged 50 to 82 years (mean age = 63.1 years) who form a sample 60. Samples were selected from District Coimbatore (Manchester of South India) in Tamil Nadu. The participants were contacted individually by the researcher and the data were collected by face-to-face.

Tools

The tools used in this study for data collection by the researcher were the following:

1. Personal Information Schedule: An "Outreach Program" was designed by the investigator to obtain demographic information and biographies of samples required for the study.

2. Leming Fear of Death Scale (1979-80): This scale consists of 26 states with 6 possible Results of such response, 1 as "strongly agree" "agree," "somewhat agree", "somewhat disagree" and "Strongly disagree". Each statement will take the points from 1 to 6 and the defendant is the circle the category that you feel appropriate. All These results are summed to obtain the total score. The maximum score is 156 and the minimum is 26.

STATISTICS analaysis

The average difference standard test statistic T is calculated.

Table I: shows the influence of children on the experience of death anxiety among the people Seniors

Variable more children

(n = 24) n / fewer children

(n = 36) "t" p

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

2.185

Death Anxiety

79

4.78

88.33

18.19

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

As there are no significant differences between the sexes in the experience the anguish of death, results are presented with the combined data. The results are summarized in Table I shows that the value the't '58 DF is significant not reach the .05 level of confidence indicates that the elderly with more children experience less anxiety death of persons aged less and have no children, which is in accordance with previous findings (for example, Reinhardt and Fisher, 1988; Baum & Boxley, 1984, etc.) which describes the relationship with children by providing more stimulation, I support and value in the life of the latter.

REFERENCES

Baum, SK (1983). Older citizens concerned about the afterlife. Psychological Reports. Vol 52 (3), 895-898.

Baum, SK & Boxely, RL (1984). Age denial: denial of death in the elderly: The Death of Education. Vol 8 (5-6), 419-423.

Choron, J. (1984). Death and the modern man. New York: Macmillan.

Kastenbaum, R & Costa, PT (1977). Psychological Perspectives on Death. Annual Review of Psychology, 28, 225-240.

Kogan, N & Wallach, MA (1961). Age changes in values and attitudes. Journal of Gerontology, 16, 272-280.

Liberman, MA Tobbin, SS (1983). Oldag experience, stress, adaptation and survival. New York: Basic Books.

Mullins, SC and Lee, MA (1982). Death anxiety among residents of nursing homes. A comparison of the old age of youth. Death Education, 6, 75-86.

Peterson, JA (1980). "Social aspects of death and death and mental health" in Birren, JE and Sloane, RB (Eds.). Manual of Mental Health and Aging. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall.

Reinhardt, JP & Fisher, CD (1988). Relationship cons of friendship: social adaptation in married women or elderly widows. Women and Health. Vol 14 (3-4), 191-211.

Sinha, SN (1971). Lonely old man. Indian Journal of Gerontology, Vol 3 and 4.

Stillion, J. (1995). Death in adult life: In response to Bell tolls. In the Age, H and Neimeyer, R (Eds.), Dying: Facing the Facts, Washington, Taylor & Francis, 303-322.

Tate, LA (1982). Life satisfaction and death anxiety among older women. International Journal of Aging and Human Development. Vol 15 (4), 299-306.

Thorson, J. A & Powell, FC (1988). Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 696-701.

About the Author

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Department of Psychology,
Annamalai University,
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