Outgrowing death: The relationship of religiosity and death anxiety across different developmental stages

• Main Authors: Dy, Kathleen Concepcion, Gumabao, Maria Margarita Imperial, Torres, Raphael Julian Dikit, Zafra, Michael Ethan Monakil
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Death > Religious aspects; Death > Psychological aspects; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6944
• Institution: De La Salle University

Religiosity and death anxiety are two variables that have been linked through various studies. Religiosity is the beliefs, feelings, and practices that are tied to religion (Ho & Ho, 2007). Death anxiety is the negative or apprehensive feeling that one has when thinking about death and dying (Richardson, Berman, & Piwowarski,1983). The common relationship seen between these two is that fear of death is higher when a person is more religious. The study will once more explore the relationship between the two while adding developmental stages as a possible moderator of the relationship between religiosity and death anxiety.