Document Type : Scientific Research
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Abstract
Objective: Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship of
religious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatization
symptoms in women.
Method: Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical society
of this study. 140 women, who had been selected randomly by multistage cluster
sampling method, responded orderly to the questionnaires of religious orientation,
attitudes toward death, quality of life and somatization symptoms .Collected data
were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression tests.
Results: The results showed that quality of life has a positive correlation with internal
religious orientation and the attitudes of approach acceptance toward death.
Somatization symptoms also related positively to the attitudes of avoidance of
death and escape acceptance. Furthermore results of regression analyze showed
that 14 percent of women’s life quality variance was explained by internal
religious orientation and the attitudes of avoidance of death. Regression of
somatization symptoms based on religious orientation and attitudes about death
was not significant.
Conclusion: This results reveal religious and spiritual bases and consequently the
death attitudes as one of the effective variables on the women quality of life and
their health.
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