Religiosity and Death Anxiety among Outpatients with Chronic Diseases: Sense of Humor as Mediation Variable

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sense of humor, religiosity, death anxiety, outpatient

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to explore the correlation between religiosity and death anxiety using a sense of humor to play a role as mediation variable. The participants were 126 outpatients (female =72%) with chronic diseases from different hospitals and community medical centers in Lombok Timur Province, Indonesia. The instruments were the revised intrinsic / extrinsic religious orientation scale, death anxiety scale, and multidimensional sense of humor scale. Data were analyzed using Moderate Regression analysis. The results showed that there was a correlation between religiosity and death anxiety, in which sense of humor was the mediation variable of religiosity and death anxiety relation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mr Latipun
AU  - Ziyadatul Khair
AU  - Tri Dayakisni
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Religiosity and Death Anxiety among Outpatients with Chronic Diseases: Sense of Humor as Mediation Variable
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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