A Study on Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude and Quality of Life among Korean Baby-boom Generation Women

Jeong Woo Yun; Hwee Wee

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2016.25.3.207

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Yun and Wee: A Study on Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude and Quality of Life among Korean Baby-boom Generation Women

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2016; 25(3): 207-216.

Published online: 30 September 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2016.25.3.207

A Study on Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude and Quality of Life among Korean Baby-boom Generation Women

Jeong Woo Yun¹, Hwee Wee²

¹Graduate School, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, Korea.

²Department of Nursing, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, Korea.

Corresponding author: Wee, Hwee. Department of Nursing, Kunsan National University, 558 Daehak-ro, Gunsan 54150, Korea. Tel: +82-63-469-1993, Fax: +82-63-469-7429, weehwee@hanmail.net

Received 22 July 2016 Revised 10 August 2016 Accepted 19 August 2016

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

In Korea, people in the baby-boom generation are now experiencing the aging phenomenon and they differ significantly from previous generations with social and historical experience as well as population size. The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationships between death anxiety, death preparation, gratitude and the degree of quality of life in baby-boom generation women.

Methods

For the study 144 participants who lived in Jeonbuk area were enrolled. A questionnaire survey method including several tools was used. Data were collected from February 23 to March 20, 2016 and analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, ANOVA, Pearson correlation with SPSS/WIN 18.0.

Results

The major findings are summarized as follows: (1) Scores for death anxiety, death preparation, gratitude and the quality of life were average. (2) There was significant negative correlation between gratitude and death anxiety. Gratitude had significantly positive relations to death preparation and quality of life.

Conclusion

The findings show that gratitude is the most important factor in baby-boom generation women, suggesting that further study to verify impact factors is needed, and intervention program which provide for successful later years for baby-boom generation women should be developed.

Keywords: Death, Anxiety, Gratitude, Quality of life

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics of Research Participants (N=144)

Table 2

Level of Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude and Quality of Life (N=144)

Table 3

Difference in Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude and Quality of Life according to General Characteristics (N=144)

Table 4

Correlations of Death Anxiety, Death Preparation, Gratitude, and Quality of Life (N=144)

Notes

This article is a revision of the first author's master's thesis from Kunsan National University.

^{CONFLICTS OF INTEREST} The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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