The relationship between the level of dispositive optimism and general anxienty and anxienty about death

- Степура, Є.В. (orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-0788) (2025) The relationship between the level of dispositive optimism and general anxienty and anxienty about death Габітус (71). pp. 90-94. ISSN 2663-5216

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Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of the connection of dispositional optimism with general anxiety and death anxiety. The direct correlation between general anxiety of a person and death anxiety is demonstrated. It is also determined that person’s anxiety positively correlates with the disturbance of physical changes caused by death. The investigation proved the existence of inverse correlation between dispositional optimism and the level of both general anxiety and death anxiety. It indicates that the formation of optimistic worldview can contribute to the decrease of both general and death anxiety. Meanwhile it is determined that correlation between optimism and death anxiety is weaker than the correlation between optimism and general anxiety. Presumably, it is general anxiety that functions as a mediator in the correlation between optimism and death anxiety. It can be assumed, that the rise of optimism level can help to reduce death anxiety, which can be applied in psychotherapy. The increase of optimistic expectations will likely have an even more distinctive therapeutic effect upon general anxiety. It is discovered that negative thoughts demonstrate only weak, although statistically relevant correlations with general anxiety and death anxiety. To a certain degree it contradicts traditional views about the mechanisms of anxiety development. It is entirely possible that there are some sociocultural and situational factors which counteract the impact of negative thoughts upon the development of person’s anxiety. It is determined that optimism negatively correlates with anxiety of postmortem physical changes. Pessimism, on the contrary, has positive correlation with this factor of death anxiety. Arguably, social attitudes, which are related to the importance of person’s appearance, affect the development of death anxiety, and pessimists are more inclined to follow such social attitudes.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Optimism, pessimism, anxiety, death anxiety, preoccupation with physical changes.
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:	20 Jun 2025 17:55
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2025 17:55
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/745681

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