Psychological Loneliness And Its Relationship To Death Anxiety In The Elderly

Abstract

The current paper aims to identify the level of psychological unit among the elderly, to identify the level of psychological anxiety in the elderly, to identify the nature of the correlation between psychological loneliness and death anxiety, and to identify the extent of the psychological unit's contribution to death anxiety. There are (180) elderly people. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher constructed, designed, and then applied the measures of psychological unit and death anxiety, and the results showed the following: 1- The level of psychological loneliness and death anxiety of the research sample is high in all dimensions. 2 - There is a positive significant correlation between psychological loneliness and death anxiety. 3 - The psychological unit, with its three dimensions, shares the ability to predict the anxiety of death.