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The Relationship between the Christian Religious Orientation and Attitudes toward Death

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2013, 21(), pp.61-91
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2013.21..61
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 20, 2013
  • Accepted : November 12, 2013

ByunYoungIn 1

1동서대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Death itself is fair to everyone, but a dying state, all about the fear of death, so unlikely to death, there is a need to study the attitudes. This study of the Christian religious orientation and attitudes toward death by age, gender attitudes and was to study the relationship. Five factors of death attitude were investigated in this study: death avoidance, fear for death process, fear for afterlife, neutral acceptance and approach acceptance. And two types of religious life were selected: intrinsic and extrinsic types. To this end, a survey of 331 people adults conducted research results are as follows. First, men have a tendency of women is higher than extrinsic, women, the higher the age, the higher extrinsic orientation. Second, the fear for death process and the fear for afterlife levels increased with increasing age. Third, The higher the intrinsic propensity showed a decreasing relationship fear for afterlife, fear for death process. Conversely, the increase of extrinsic orientation relationship that these fears were increased. Therefore, the Christians and the life of faith is not satisfied with that, intrinsic religious orientation will need to have.

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