?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Factors+Related+to+Life+satisfaction%2C+Meaning+of+life%2C+Religiosity+and+Death+Anxiety+in+Health+Care+Staff+and+Students%3A+A+Cross+Sectional+Study+from+India&rft.creator=Latha%2C+KS&rft.creator=Sahana%2C+M&rft.creator=Mariella%2C+D&rft.creator=Subbannayya%2C+K&rft.creator=Asha%2C+K&rft.subject=Online+Journal+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences&rft.description=Death+is+beyond+one's+personal+control%2C+generates+great+concern+and+anxiety%2C+among+human+beings.+Studies+exploring+the+association+between+religious+attitudes+and+death+attitudes+in+adolescents+and+young+adults+in+postmodern+society+are+scarce.+This+study+examines+the+relationship+between+five+dimensions+of+attitude+toward+death+(fear+of+death%2C+death+avoidance%2C+neutral+acceptance%2C+approach+acceptance%2C+and+escape+acceptance)%2C+death+anxiety%2C+life+satisfaction+and+meaning%2C+religiosity+and+selected+personal+factors+among+health+care+staff+and+students+in+three+teaching+hospitals.+A+total+of+230+adolescents+and+adults+both+sexes+who+were+willing+participated.+Diener+et+al+Satisfaction+with+Life%2C+Steger+et+al+Meaning+of+Life+Questionnaire%3B+Templer's+Death+Anxiety+Scale%2C+Wong's+Death+Attitude+Profile-R+and+a+religious+attitude+scale+were+administered.+Findings+showed+students'+search+for+meaning+was+higher+than+faculty.+An+unusual+finding+of+higher+Approach+acceptance+death+attitude+in+students+emerged.+Correlation+analysis+revealed+that+presence+of+meaning+was+related+to+greater+life+satisfaction+in+both+groups.+It+was+further+related+to+higher+religiosity+in+both+groups+and+higher+neutral+acceptance+of+death+and+lesser+death+anxiety+in+students+alone.+In+both+groups+search+for+meaning+was+positively+associated+with+death+anxiety.+Faculty's+search+for+meaning+was+positively+associated+with+negative+death+attitudes+and+surprisingly+one+positive+death+attitude.+Death+anxiety+was+more+with+faculty's+advancing+age%2C+and+was+also+more+when+both+groups+held+negative+death+attitudes.+Religiosity+was+positively+associated+with+death+anxiety+in+students.+Further%2C+religiosity+was+not+only+positively+associated+with+positive+death+attitudes+of+approach+acceptance+(both+groups)+and+neutral+acceptance+(faculty)+but+also+with+negative+attitude+of+death+avoidance+(faculty).+Death+anxiety+was+more+despite+both+groups+embracing+approach+acceptance+death+attitude+indicating+ambivalent+death+views.&rft.publisher=Kakkilaya+BS&rft.contributor=Kakkilaya%2C+Dr+Srinivas&rft.date=2013-08-25&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9155%2F1%2F2013-2-7.pdf&rft.identifier=++Latha%2C+KS+and+Sahana%2C+M+and+Mariella%2C+D+and+Subbannayya%2C+K+and+Asha%2C+K++(2013)+Factors+Related+to+Life+satisfaction%2C+Meaning+of+life%2C+Religiosity+and+Death+Anxiety+in+Health+Care+Staff+and+Students%3A+A+Cross+Sectional+Study+from+India.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9155%2F