Article 2023 · 17 citations

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

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; M-age = 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.

Keywords

Death anxiety death depression death distress fear of COVID-19 negative religious coping positive religious coping SCALE DEVELOPMENT DISTRESS

WoS Categories

Psychology, Multidisciplinary Religion

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-being

Citation

Journal: ARCHIVE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION-ARCHIV FUR RELIGIONSPSYCHOLOGIE
Year: 2023
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Pages: 23-36
ISSN: 0084-6724
eISSN: 1573-6121
DOI: 10.1177/00846724221133455
WoS UID: WOS:000882765400001

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