Abstract
The present study aimed at assessing the afterlife belief and ego integrity as potential mediators between religious orientation and death anxiety among older Muslim adults. Data were collected from 515 adults above the age of sixty, recruited from different areas of Punjab (Pakistan). Men (n=304) and women (n=211), were given representation in the Convenient sample. Age of the sample ranged from 60 to 93 years (M=65.3, SD=6.17). Urdu translated Revised Religious Orientation Scale (Rasheed & Obaid, 2012), Afterlife Belief Scale for Muslims (Ghayas & Batool, 2017), Urdu Translated Ego Integrity Scale (Ghayas, 2016) and Urdu translated and adapted version of Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (Ghayas, 2016) were used to measure the study variables. Structural Equation Modeling was carried out through AMOS and results revealed that negative afterlife belief and ego integrity were fully mediating the relationship between death anxiety and intrinsic religious orientation. Extrinsic religious orientation appeared as a non-significant correlate of death anxiety. Results of the study support the death apprehension theory and Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development.
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