The relationship between happiness and the meaning of life with death anxiety

- Степура, Є.В. (orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-0788) (2022) The relationship between happiness and the meaning of life with death anxiety Габітус (40). pp. 71-76. ISSN 2663-5208

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Abstract

Death anxiety is a most fundamental anxiety that may chase a person. Correspondingly there arises a problem of looking for resources that can be contraposed to this anxiety. It is determined that the meaning of life and the feeling of happiness can belong to such resources. It is pointed out that in the conceptions of some scientists the very presence of the meaning of life is an important component of human happiness. In general there is a sufficient number of more or less modern empirical investigations of the connection of death anxiety with the meaning of life and happiness. It is noted that in Ukraine the problem of death anxiety is mainly treated merely in its theoretical aspect. Our investigation demonstrates that neither the meaning of life presence nor the aspiration to find this meaning are not in any way connected with the feeling of happiness. No considerable correlation was found between happiness and death anxiety with the exception of positive connection between meaning of life presence and the awareness of time flow. Here we observe considerable positive correlation with the happiness scale. To a certain extent these results contradict the results of other scientists, which conducted the survey of students in other countries. It is determined that the meaning of life presence correlate with cognitive-affective death anxiety. In addition we observed considerable negative correlation between the factor of time flow awareness and the search for the meaning of life. This connection indicates that people, who search for the meaning of life, are less aware of time flow and of its striving towards death. It is also determined that people who search for the meaning of life are less anxious about death or, vice versa, strong death anxiety hinders person’s search of new meanings, setting of new goals etc. It should be noted that our results are essentially different from the results of foreign investigations. So it is possible to state the presence of cultural differences in the correlation between the meaning of life presence and death anxiety.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	The meaning of life, happiness, death anxiety, cultural differences, youth.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology
Divisions:	Institute of Psychology after N.Kostiuk > Department of methodology and theory of psychology
Depositing User:	м.н.с. О.В Котух
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2022 11:41
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2022 11:41
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/733470

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