Citation

Roxana P, Violeta E, Ion D, Iuliana P, Doina A. Death Stud. 2019; 43(1): 9-19.

Affiliation

Department of Oncogenetics, Faculty of Medicine , "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2018.1430083

PMID

29393825

Abstract

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the association of supernatural beliefs and sense of coherence with death anxiety and death depression in a Romanian sample of cancer patients. We found support for the TMT worldview defence hypothesis postulating the presence of a curvilinear relation between death anxiety and supernatural beliefs among cancer patients.

RESULTS conformed to an inverted U-shape quadratic regression, indicating that cancer patients who scored moderately on supernatural beliefs were afraid of death the most, while death anxiety was lowest for the extreme atheists and extreme believers in supernatural entities.

Language: en

Keywords

death anxiety; death depression; sense of coherence; supernatural beliefs