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

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KIZILGEÇİT M., Yıldırım M.

Archive for the Psychology of Religion, cilt.45, sa.1, ss.23-36, 2023 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/00846724221133455
  • Dergi Adı: Archive for the Psychology of Religion
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, ATLA Religion Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.23-36
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Death anxiety, death depression, death distress, fear of COVID-19, negative religious coping, positive religious coping
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.