Death Anxiety During Covid-19 Pandemic In Imphal, Manipur, India

Abstract

Background: Death anxiety deals with a form of anxiety resulting from the traumatic experiences encountered by the people due to pandemic or war or conflict or other hard time as the person has been experienced.

Objectives: The current study mainly focus on finding out the correlation of death anxiety with five socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, educational level, marital status and monthly family income.

Method: Snowball sampling technique is used through online in order to collect data under study. We conducted paired t-test for objective-wise and variable-wise data analysis.

Result: The p-values of the variables gender, level of education and marital status are found as less than 0.01 it indicates that gender, level of education and marital status are important predictors of death anxiety. And it is also found that age of the respondents is also important predictor of level of death anxiety as p-value < 0.05. Unlike the other variables, since the p-value of monthly income of the respondents was obtained as greater than 0.05, income is not an important predictor of the level of death anxiety.

Conclusion:  Out of five variables four are the important predictors of the level of death anxiety in this study. In this context, Life and Death Education may be introduced, particularly, in the school curriculum.