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المستخلص
- THE STUDY PROBLEM:
Death anxiety is a big problem among youth, adolescents and
elderly people. It leads to several psychological disorders such as
depression, phobia, schizophrenia, .. etc. The logotherapy was used in
the present study as a technique for reducing death anxiety among a
sample of elderly people. The problem of the present study was
crystallized in the following main question:
- To what extent is the logotherapy effective in
reducing death anxiety among a sample of
elderly people?
- STUDY OBJECTIVES:
The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of
logotherapy –based program for reducing death anxiety among a
sample of elderly people and the continuity of this effectiveness after
the follow-up period.
- STUDY IMPORTANCE:
The importance of the present study was clear in the following
points:
1. Tackling the logotherapy technique as a study variable.
2. Throwing more light on the elderly people.
3. Examining the “death anxiety” that is a very serious
psychological phenomena.
- STUDY TERMINOLOGY:
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The following terms were operationally defined:
1- Logotherapy: One of the modern psychological
therapy techniques introduced by Victor Frankl in his
book “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1959). It was
based on the phenomenology. It was the third therapy
school founded in Vienna.
2- Death anxiety: It is an emotional condition of vague
fear, resulted in the individual’s response to anything
related to death, either his own death or the death of
one of his fiends and relatives. It affects the person
himself especially when he becomes elder.
3- Elderly people: they are the male and female persons
aged 60-70 years, are on pension and living in Egypt
and do not do any work.
- STUDY SAMPLE:
The sample consisted of 20 of elderly people, at the age of
60-70, who had a low purpose of life and had a high feeling of
death anxiety. They were divided into four groups:
1- Experimental Group 1: 5 male elderly people.
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2- Experimental Group 2: 5 female elderly people.
3- Control Group 3: 5 male elderly people.
4- Control Group 4: 5 female elderly people.
- STUDY TOOLS:
The present study used the following tools:
- A questionnaire for collecting data, prepared by the
present study author.
- A scale of cultural, economic and social level, prepared
by Hemdan Fadhah (1997).
- Death anxiety scale for elderly people, prepared by the
present study author.
- Scale of purpose of life, developed by Ismail Badr
(1990).
- Logotherapy program, prepared by the present study
author.
- STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES:
The following statistical techniques were followed in the
present study: T-test, Man-Whitney test (SPSS version 15), and
Wilcoxon signed ranks test (SPSS version 15).
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- STUDY FINDINGS:
1. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
and those of the control group (female) on the whole score of
elderly people on the death anxiety scale after the
implementation of the suggested program, in favour of the
former. This reveals that the first hypothesis was accepted.
2. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
and those of the control group (female) on the whole score
of elderly people on purpose of life scale after the
implementation of the suggested program , in favour of the
former. This indicates that the second hypothesis was
accepted.
3. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
and those of the control group (male) on the whole score of
elderly people on the death anxiety scale after the
implementation of the suggested program, in favour of the
former. This reveals that the third hypothesis was verified.
4. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
and those of the control group (male) on the whole score of
elderly people on purpose of life scale after the
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implementation of the suggested program , in favour of the
former. This indicates that the fourth hypothesis was verified.
5. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
before and after the implementation of the remedial program
on the whole score of elderly people on the death anxiety
scale, in favour of the post-application. This reveals that the
fifth hypothesis was accepted.
6. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
before and after the implementation of the remedial program
on the whole score of elderly people on purpose of life scale,
in favour of the post-application. This reveals that the sixth
hypothesis was accepted.
7. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
before and after the implementation of the program on the
whole score of elderly people on the death anxiety scale, in
favour of the post-application. This indicates that the seventh
hypothesis was verified.
8. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
before and after the implementation of the program on the
whole score of elderly people on purpose of life scale , in
favour of the post-application. This indicates that the eighth
hypothesis was verified.
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9. There were no statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
after the implementation of the remedial program and the
fellow-up period (two months) on the whole score of elderly
people on the death anxiety scale. This indicates that the
ninth hypothesis was rejected.
10. There were no statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
after the implementation of the remedial program and the
fellow-up period (two months) on the whole score of elderly
people on purpose of life scale. This indicates that the tenth
hypothesis was not accepted.
11. There were no statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
after the implementation of the remedial program and the
fellow-up period (two months) on the whole score of elderly
people on the death anxiety scale. This indicates that the
eleventh hypothesis was rejected.
12. There were no statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.05
between the scores means of the experimental group (male)
after the implementation of the remedial program and the
fellow-up period (two months) on the whole score of elderly
on purpose of life scale. This indicates that the twelfth
hypothesis was not accepted.
13. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
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and those of the experimental group (male) on the whole
score of elderly people’s death anxiety scale and on purpose
of life scale after the implementation of the suggested
program , in favour of the former. This reveals that the
thirteenth hypothesis was accepted.
14. There were statistically significant differences at ≤ 0.01
between the scores means of the experimental group (female)
and those of the experimental group (male) on the whole
score of elderly people’s death anxiety scale and on purpose
of life scale after the fellow-up period, in favour of the
former. This reveals that the fourteenth hypothesis was
accepted.