Fear of COVID-19, death depression and death anxiety: Religious coping as a mediator

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the well-being and mental health of populations worldwide. This study sought to examine whether religious coping mediated the relationship between COVID-19-related fear and death distress. We administered an online survey to 390 adult participants (66.15% females;...

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VerfasserInnen: Kızılgeçit, Muhammed (VerfasserIn) ; Yıldırım, Murat (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: SAGE Publishing 2023
In: Archive for the psychology of religion
Jahr: 2023, Band: 45, Heft: 1, Seiten: 23-36
weitere Schlagwörter:B Positive Religious Coping
B death depression
B Negative Religious Coping
B death distress
B fear of COVID-19
B Death Anxiety
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Zusammenfassung:The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the well-being and mental health of populations worldwide. This study sought to examine whether religious coping mediated the relationship between COVID-19-related fear and death distress. We administered an online survey to 390 adult participants (66.15% females; Mage = 30.85 ± 10.19 years) across Turkey. Participants completed a series of questionnaires measuring the fear they had experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, their levels of religious coping and their levels of death anxiety and depression. Our findings revealed that (a) fear of COVID-19 was associated with positive religious coping, negative religious coping, death anxiety and death distress; (b) negative religious coping was associated with death anxiety and depression and (c) negative religious coping mediated the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and death anxiety and depression. These results highlight the detrimental effect of negative religious coping in increasing the adverse effect of the COVID-19 fear on death depression.
ISSN:1573-6121
Enthält:Enthalten in: Archive for the psychology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00846724221133455