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Impact of death anxiety on mental health during Covid-19

The mediating role of the meaning in life

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ID15672011
AutoresYuchang Jin (0000-0002-5273-2954, Sichuan Normal University, autor de correspondencia), Qiao Zeng (0000-0002-9729-605X, Sichuan Normal University), Xianglong Cong (Sichuan Normal University), Junxiu An (0000-0002-4533-0164, Chengdu University of Information Technology), Peixuan Zheng (0000-0002-0781-4459, University of Alabama)
Año2023
Volumen17
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1834-4909 • E-ISSN: 1834-4909
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/18344909231165187
OpenAlexW4362503627
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas45

The aim of this article is to explore whether COVID-19 aroused an awareness of death, inflamed death anxiety, and affected mental health and to assess the degree that meaning in life played in the relationship between death anxiety and general mental health. A total of 197 participants were recruited using convenience sampling and were divided into an experimental group ( n = 100) and a control group ( n = 97). All participants completed the Death Anxiety Scale (DA), the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Death anxiety had a significant positive predictive effect on general mental health and meaning in life. When death anxiety and meaning in life were included in the regression equation, death anxiety still had a significant positive predictive effect on general mental health, and meaning in life had a significant positive predictive effect on general mental health. These results indicated that meaning in life played a partially mediating role in the influence of death anxiety on general mental health. In the COVID-19 context, death information was found to arouse awareness of death and death anxiety, which adversely affected mental health, and it was also confirmed that meaning in life played a partially mediating role between death anxiety and general mental health, which suggested that mental health problems could be alleviated in the future by helping people find meaning and value in their lives and cope more positively with death

Anxiety · Death anxiety · General Health Questionnaire · Meaning (existential · Meaning of life · Mental health · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology

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