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- Title
ÖLÜM KAYGISI VE DİNDARLIK ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME.
- Authors
ALPARSLAN, Kenan
- Abstract
The death anxiety is one of the leading existential problems. Religiosity, on the other hand, plays an important role in coping with death anxiety. However, studies on the relationship between death anxiety and religiosity have revealed conflicting results. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between religiosity and death anxiety and to identify possible causes of conflicting results. The study used a systematic review method to examine both correlational and experimental studies. The studies reviewed draw attention to two important results. First, although there are generally inconsistent relationships between religiosity and death anxiety, especially intrinsic religious orientation is negatively associated with death anxiety. Second, mortality salience increases the religious beliefs of the religious while producing inconsistent results for the nonreligious. On the other hand, these studies have some critical limitations. One of these limitations, the measures of religiosity and death anxiety used in studies wide variety, and their reliability and cross-cultural validity can be problematic. Implicitly measuring religiosity and death anxiety can help solve this problem. Another limitation is that the experimental studies were very few and those that did were mostly done with participants from the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Therefore, there is a need to conduct studies (especially experimental) from different religious and cultural traditions to overcome this limitation. The current review is essential to have better understanding the relationship between religiosity and fear of death and guiding future studies.
- Subjects
INTRINSIC motivation; JUDEO-Christian tradition; FAITH; FEAR of death; TERROR management theory; RELIGIOUS psychology; RELIGIOUSNESS
- Publication
Religious Studies / Dini Araştırmalar, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 63, p529
- ISSN
1301-966X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15745/da.1171650