Exploration of Death Anxiety as a Function of Religious Variables in Gay Men with and without Aids
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Vol. 22 (1) , 43-50
- https://doi.org/10.2190/kpb8-up81-n3bh-1ptj
Abstract
The relationship of religious variables to death anxiety was investigated in fifty-one gay men with AIDS and sixty-four gay men without AIDS. Higher death anxiety in the men with AIDS was associated with greater church attendance, belonging to the religion of childhood, citing religion to have been “harmful,” and not adhering to a spiritual belief system independent of formal religion. Within the group of men without AIDS higher death anxiety was associated with having the same religion as in childhood.Keywords
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