Prediction of Death Anxiety Based on Spiritual Intelligence Mediated by Resilience and Self-Efficacy in Elderly of Kerman Nursing Home

Navid Abedi, Pegah Dehghan, Mahshid Tajrobehkar

Abstract


Due to worldwide increasing in the number of elderlies, studying the common disorders among them are getting more important. Death anxiety is one of those disorders which has been investigated poorly. Various studies have confirmed the relationship between spiritual intelligence and death anxiety, however, the number of studies investigating spiritual intelligence as a source of death anxiety is not that significant. The aim of this study was to find out if resilience and self-efficacy could mediate between spiritual intelligence and death anxiety. In a cross-sectional field study, using standardized questionnaires, namely Spiritual Intelligence Self-Reporting Inventory (SISIRI-24), Templar Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), Conner-Davidson Consolidation Scale (CD-RISC), and Sherer Self-Efficacy Scale (SGES), responses of 280 elderly people with an average age of 68.56 years were analyzed. The results of the study indicated that spiritual intelligence and death anxiety has a significant correlation and that resilience and self-efficacy are mediators between those variables.


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