|
KMID : 0379220090290010275
|
|
Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2009 Volume.29 No. 1 p.275 ~ p.289
|
|
|
The relationship between sociodemographic variables and death anxiety among the elderly
|
|
Kim Yun-Sook
Kim Ji-Mee
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
The purpose of this study is to explore effective factors of elderly people’s overall death anxiety and sub-dimensions of death anxiety. The subjects were 156 elderly people in S City, Gyeonggi-Do gathered by convenience sampling. This study collected data by interviewing the elderly who agreed to participate in the study and then analyzed it using SPSS 12.0 through descriptive statistics, the t-test, F-test, Sheffe-test, correlation analysis, and multiple regression. The respondents’ overall death anxiety score was 2.61(±.47), and ’anxiety in the dying process’(2.94) had the highest points among sub-dimensions. Effective factors of overall level of death anxiety among the elderly were ’age’ (β=-.18, p=.015), ’education’ (β=-.16, p=.045), and ’economic status’ (β=-.26, p=.003). In sub-dimensions, the elderly who were female, relatively young, and had low economic status showed high ’anxiety in the dying process’. As for ’anxiety over what will
happen after one’s death’, the elderly who were relatively young, and had low economic status had high scores. Finally, on ’the loss of existence’, the elderly who had poor relationships with their families had high scores.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
death anxiety, elderly
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|