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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: 3 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. 4 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). 5 - 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 6 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. 7 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) 8 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. |