Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 10, Issue 2, No 38, Year 2025 , Pages 109-124
A Comparative Study of the Death Anxiety, Loneliness and Attachment to God among the People with Cancer, People with Heart Diseases and Healthy People
Article Type:
Research
Writers:
✍️ Adel Zahid Babelan / Associate professor of Educational sciences department, Mohaqiq Ardabili University / zahed@uma.ac.ir
Sheyda Borghi / کارشناس ارشد
Abstract:
The current study has been done to discover a comparison between death anxiety, loneliness and attachment to God among the people with cancer, people with heart disease and healthy people. The statistical population include 612 people with cancer, 210 people with heart diseases and 40 healthy people. To collect the data, Templar death anxiety, UCLA loneliness and Beck and Mc Donald`s questionnaires were used. The statistics related to the three analysis of one-variable variance showed a significant difference in averages of all three variables after Benefroni`s correction. LSD follow-up test results show that the average score of the loneliness among people with cancer is significantly higher than people with heart disease and healthy people. The average score of the attachment to God among the people with cancer and the people with heart diseases is higher than that of healthy people. Also the death anxiety average score of the people with cancer is significantly higher than the people with heart disease and healthy people.
چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
Title :مقایسه اضطراب مرگ، احساس تنهایی و دلبستگی به خدا، در بین بیماران سرطانی، بیماران قلبی و افراد سالم
Abstract:
این پژوهش ﺑا هدف مقایسه اﺿـﻄﺮاب ﻣﺮگ، احساس تنهایی و دلبستگی به خدا، در بین بیماران سرطانی، قلبی و افراد سالم اﻧﺠﺎم ﺷﺪه اﺳﺖ. جامعه آماری شامل 612 بیمار سرطانی، 210 بیمار قلبی و 40 نفر افراد سالم بود. برای جمع آوری داده ها، از پرسش نامه های اضطراب مرگ تمپلر، احساس تنهایی UCLA و دلبستگی به خدا اثر بک و مک دونالد استفاده شد. آماره های مربوط به سه تحلیل واریانس تک متغیری، پس از تصحیح بنفرونی نشان داد که تفاوت میانگین هر سه متغیر در بین سه گروه معنی دار است. نتایج آزمون تعقیبی LSD نشان داد، میانگین نمرات احساس تنهایی در بیماران سرطانی به گونه معنی دار بالاتر از بیماران قلبی و افراد سالم است. اما میانگین نمره دلبستگی به خدا، در بیماران سرطانی و قلبی بالاتر از افراد سالم است. همچنین میانگین نمره اضطراب مرگ بیماران سرطانی، به گونه معنی داری بالاتر از بیماران قلبی و افراد سالم است.
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Zahid Babelan, Adel, Borghi, Sheyda.(2025) A Comparative Study of the Death Anxiety, Loneliness and Attachment to God among the People with Cancer, People with Heart Diseases and Healthy People. Ravanshenasi Wa Din, 10(2), 109-124
Adel Zahid Babelan; Sheyda Borghi."A Comparative Study of the Death Anxiety, Loneliness and Attachment to God among the People with Cancer, People with Heart Diseases and Healthy People". Ravanshenasi Wa Din, 10, 2, 2025, 109-124
Zahid Babelan, A, Borghi, S.(2025) 'A Comparative Study of the Death Anxiety, Loneliness and Attachment to God among the People with Cancer, People with Heart Diseases and Healthy People', Ravanshenasi Wa Din, 10(2), pp. 109-124
