A Study On Elders' Physical Health,Self-esteem And Their Ralationship With Attitudes To Death

In china,death is a topic that most Chinese people are not willing to mention traditionally.However,everyone have to face it,especially the elderly.Most old people feel anxious and even scared when they realize they are moving towards their ultimate destination of life.Considering such situation,this study placed the research,through questionnaire,on Chinese elders~'attitude towards death and the relationship between the attitude and their physical health.Moreover,finding out the roles that self-esteem plays in physical health and the attitude to death is another aim of the study.The study was conducted on 230 objects of 60-years-old elders by convenient sampling and snowball method.Through analysis,the findings of the study are as follows:Firstly,in the investigation,natural acceptance is the way that most of the elders chose,followed by escape acceptance,approaching acceptance,death escape and fear of death,of which fear of death,death escape and natural acceptance have significant differences in ages.Death escapes were obviously different in gender.Besides,natural acceptances were different in different educational levels.Significant differences of escape acceptance existed in different incomes.Significant differences of approaching acceptance and fear of death,natural acceptance existed in different religions.Significant differences of approaching acceptance and natural acceptance existed in different areas.Secondly,significant differences of physical health existed in different ages,education levels,incomes,living conditions,religions and areas.Thirdly,significant differences of self-esteem existed in different genders and living conditions.Fourthly,there is significant negative correlation between current health,health concerns,disease resistance,health scores and fear of death.There is significant positive correlation between health perspectives and death escape.There is significant positive correlation between disease attitude,health history,disease resistance,health score and natural acceptance.There is significant negative correlation between disease attitude,health history and approach acceptance.There is positive correlation between approach acceptance and health concerns.There is no significant correlation between escape acceptance and physical health.What's more,there is a significant positive correlation between current health,health perspectives,health concerns,disease resistance,health scores and self-esteem.Sixthly,there is significant negative correlation between fear of death,death escape and self-esteem;there is positive correlation between self-esteem and natural acceptance.Seventhly,self-esteem is a partial mediation between physical health and fear of death.Last but not the least,self-esteem is a partial mediation between physical health and natural acceptance.