Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope
While having an awareness of death may make life more meaningful for some individuals, it might also cause death distress for others. This study aims to understand the effects of death distress as an existential problem on mental health. A novel aspect of this study is the examination of the mediati...
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| author | Seydi Ahmet Satıcı Zahide Gül Aktepe Fatma Betül Yılmaz Hasan Kütük Sinan Okur |
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| description | While having an awareness of death may make life more meaningful for some individuals, it might also cause death distress for others. This study aims to understand the effects of death distress as an existential problem on mental health. A novel aspect of this study is the examination of the mediating roles of meaning-based coping and hope in this relationship. In the study, data were collected from 397 adults residing in 51 different Turkish provinces. The age range of the participants was 18 to 57 years old, and the average age was 24.39 years. (SD = 5.42). The participants participated in the study voluntarily through a web-based form. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and the bootstrapping method, the relationships between variables were determined. All variables in the study were found to be related to each other. Additionally, as a result of the serial multiple mediation analysis, it was determined that meaning-based coping and hope played a full mediating role serially in the relationship between death distress and mental well-being. This finding indicates that death distress predicts mental well-being through meaning-based coping and hope. In conclusion, the findings indicate that meaning-based coping and hope have a beneficial and positive effect on reducing the negative impact of death distress on mental well-being. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-577ca60845e444b295fdfc86f0c505332025-08-20T02:58:37ZengKafkas Universitye-Kafkas Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi2148-89402025-04-01121213510.30900/kafkasegt.1561275148Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and HopeSeydi Ahmet Satıcı0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-8589Zahide Gül Aktepe1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6702-5243Fatma Betül Yılmaz2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9630-787XHasan Kütük3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-4107Sinan Okur4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3439-5907YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYYILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYISTINYE UNIVERSITYISTANBUL SABAHATTIN ZAIM UNIVERSITYMİLLİ SAVUNMA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HAVA HARP OKULUWhile having an awareness of death may make life more meaningful for some individuals, it might also cause death distress for others. This study aims to understand the effects of death distress as an existential problem on mental health. A novel aspect of this study is the examination of the mediating roles of meaning-based coping and hope in this relationship. In the study, data were collected from 397 adults residing in 51 different Turkish provinces. The age range of the participants was 18 to 57 years old, and the average age was 24.39 years. (SD = 5.42). The participants participated in the study voluntarily through a web-based form. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and the bootstrapping method, the relationships between variables were determined. All variables in the study were found to be related to each other. Additionally, as a result of the serial multiple mediation analysis, it was determined that meaning-based coping and hope played a full mediating role serially in the relationship between death distress and mental well-being. This finding indicates that death distress predicts mental well-being through meaning-based coping and hope. In conclusion, the findings indicate that meaning-based coping and hope have a beneficial and positive effect on reducing the negative impact of death distress on mental well-being.https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/4263355mental wellbeingdeath distressmeaning-based copinghopeserial mediation analysis |
| spellingShingle | Seydi Ahmet Satıcı Zahide Gül Aktepe Fatma Betül Yılmaz Hasan Kütük Sinan Okur Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope e-Kafkas Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi mental wellbeing death distress meaning-based coping hope serial mediation analysis |
| title | Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope |
| title_full | Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope |
| title_fullStr | Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope |
| title_full_unstemmed | Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope |
| title_short | Death Distress and Mental Wellbeing: Serial Mediating Roles of Meaning-Based Coping and Hope |
| title_sort | death distress and mental wellbeing serial mediating roles of meaning based coping and hope |
| topic | mental wellbeing death distress meaning-based coping hope serial mediation analysis |
| url | https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/4263355 |
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