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| Belief in the Afterlife, Death Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction of Buddhists and Christians in Thailand: Comparisons Between Different Religiosity | ||
| 作者 | Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Social Indicators Research |
| 卷期 | v.124 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2015.12 |
| 頁次 | 1015 - 1032 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.springeronline.com |
| 出版地 | Heidelberg, Germany [海德堡, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Belief in the afterlife; Death anxiety; Life satisfaction; Religion; Religiosity; Meditation |
| 摘要 | This research studied belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction, of Buddhists and Christians in Thailand. The aim of this research was to compare the variables of interest between high and low religiosity within their religion. There were two studies of 800 participants. Study 1 compared between Buddhists and meditated Buddhists in terms of the above and related variables. Study 1 had 577 participants, comprised 532 Buddhists and 45 meditated Buddhists who had already been meditating for 6 months and just finished 1-h meditation. Study 2 compared between Christians and meditated Christians who had intense involvement in religious discipline and just finished religious attendance. Study 2 had 223 participants, comprised 175 Christians and 48 meditated Christians. The results show that meditated Buddhists had more belief in the afterlife and more frequency of going to temple than Buddhists (p < .001 and p = .001, respectively). However, life satisfaction and death anxiety between Buddhists and meditated Buddhists were not significantly different (p = .349 and p = .121, respectively). Meditated Christians had less death anxiety than Christians (p < .001). Meditated Christians had more belief in the afterlife and more frequency of going to church than Christians (p < .001). However, life satisfaction between Christians and mediated Christians was not significantly different (p = .607). |
| 目次 | Abstract 1015 Keywords 1015 1 Introduction 1015 1.1 Religious Belief Systems 1016 1.2 Religion and Belief in the Afterlife 1017 1.3 Religion and Death Anxiety 1017 1.4 Religion and Life Satisfaction 1017 1.5 Correlations of Belief in the Afterlife, Death Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction 1017 2 Study 1 1018 2.1 Materials and Methods 1018 2.1.1 Participants 1018 2.1.2 Measures 1018 3 Study 1 1019 3.1 Results 1019 3.1.1 Descriptive Statistics 1019 3.1.2 Correlations of the Variables of Buddhists and Meditated Buddhists 1022 4 Study 2 1024 4.1 Materials and Methods 1024 4.1.1 Participants 1024 4.1.2 Measures 1024 4.2 Results 1025 4.2.1 Descriptive Statistics 1025 4.2.2 Correlations of the Variables of Christians and Meditated Christians 1025 5 Discussion 1029 6 Limitations and Recommendations for the Next Research 1030 Appendix 1031 References 1031 |
| ISSN | 03038300 (P); 15730921 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 108 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.01.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.02.06 |
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