Page No.175-180
Mohammad Ghufran and Sameena Ansari
Kumaun University, Almora, Uttrakhand. Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hissar, Haryana
A total of 120 subjects with age range from 60 to 75 years were selected on incidental
basis from Varanasi city. Efforts were made to control education and socio- economic
status. They were administered Bhushan’s religiosity scale and Thakur death anxiety
scale. In order to find out the significance of difference between the various
comparison groups, t- test was used. The results revealed significantly greater
religiosity for subjects with their spouses dead than for subjects with their spouses
alive. No significant difference between the widows and widowers in their religiosity
was obtained. A significant difference between the mean death anxiety scores of
the subjects with spouses dead and the subjects with spouses alive was obtained.
Subjects having their spouses dead scored higher on death anxiety scale than
subjects who have their spouses alive. However, widows were found to be
significantly more on death anxiety scale than widowers.
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