Predicting Elderly Death Anxiety Based on Personality Traits: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant professor of Clinical psychology department, Allameh Tabataba’ i University, Tehran, Iran

10.30479/mhc.2023.15552.1005

Abstract

Death anxiety, an existential anxiety about death and everything related to it, is one of the important issues of the elderly and psychologist working in this field. Therefore, the aim of this study was to predict death anxiety in the elderly based on personality characteristics and mediating role of forgiveness. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation. In order to conduct this research, 200 elderly people over 60 years old living in Shahriar nursing home were selected as a research sample using simple random sampling method and answered the NEO personality traits, Templer ‘s death anxiety and Heartland ‘s forgiveness questionnaires. The results of the analysis of the research findings showed that there is a negative relationship between neuroticism and forgiveness and a significant positive relationship between extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness with forgiveness. The test of research model also had desirable fitness and confirmed the mediating role of forgiveness. According to the results of the present study, personality variables and forgiveness can be used to predict death anxiety in the elderly.

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Mental Health and Culture
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January 2023
Pages 15-31

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