Fear of COVID-19, Death Depression and Death Anxiety: Religious Coping as a Mediator

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Kızılgeçit M., Yıldırım M.

ARCHIV FUR RELIGIONSPSYCHOLOGIE, cilt.44, sa.3, ss.1-14, 2022 (Scopus)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/00846724221133455
  • Dergi Adı: ARCHIV FUR RELIGIONSPSYCHOLOGIE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, ATLA Religion Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-14
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Abstract 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±10.19years) 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.