sajad pasarpoor; babak vojodi; nastaran atarod
Volume 3, Issue 10 , September 2014, , Pages 80-97
Abstract
Objective: Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship ofreligious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatizationsymptoms in women.Method: Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical societyof this study. 140 women, who had been selected ...
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Objective: Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship ofreligious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatizationsymptoms in women.Method: Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical societyof this study. 140 women, who had been selected randomly by multistage clustersampling method, responded orderly to the questionnaires of religious orientation,attitudes toward death, quality of life and somatization symptoms .Collected datawere analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression tests.Results: The results showed that quality of life has a positive correlation with internalreligious orientation and the attitudes of approach acceptance toward death.Somatization symptoms also related positively to the attitudes of avoidance ofdeath and escape acceptance. Furthermore results of regression analyze showedthat 14 percent of women’s life quality variance was explained by internalreligious orientation and the attitudes of avoidance of death. Regression ofsomatization symptoms based on religious orientation and attitudes about deathwas not significant.Conclusion: This results reveal religious and spiritual bases and consequently thedeath attitudes as one of the effective variables on the women quality of life andtheir health.
