Author(s): Ranjeeta Chowdhury, Paromita Ghosh and Nandini Chatterjee

Abstract:
The research question of the study was which variables of late adults i.e. age, gender, education, chronic physical illnesses, trait anxiety and dimensions of attitude towards religion play most important roles in accounting for a dimension of fear of death (reaction to death - the fear)? A stratified random sample of 200 late adults aged 65-85 years was selected from the population. Apart from a General Information Schedule the following tools were administered for data collection - Fear of Personal Death Scale (Rajamanickam 1999), The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Form X2 (Spielberger et al. 1970), Rajamanickam’s Religious Attitudes Scale (Rajamanickam 2004) and Socio-Economic Status Scale (Singh et al. 2006). Stepwise Regression was conducted. Gender and trait anxiety were found to be major predictors of fear the reaction to death of sampled late adults.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/23957476.2023.v9.i3d.1542