Resilience and death anxiety in a sample of cancer patients a field study at the Department of Oncology -Aflou Hospita

Abstract

This field study targets a sample of cancer patients in order to identify the level of both resilience as one of the constructive factors in personality and death anxiety as a destructive force and discover the type of relationship between them and are there differences between patients in the level of resilience and the level of death anxiety due to some variable. In this study, we adopted the comparative descriptive approach, and the research and data collection methods were as follows: clinical interview, resilience scale prepared by (Connor.kathryne and Davidson Jonathan), death anxiety scale by (Donald Tumbler) and this is based on a sample of (38) one cancer patient (12 male, 26 female). We have reached a set of results which are: the realization of hypothesis (there is an inverse relationship between resilience and anxiety about death among the members of the sample) and verification of the second and third hypotheses ( there are differences between the level of resilience and the level of anxiety about death which are attributed to the factors of age, and duration of illness).