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Aryanmehr S, Peyvandi P, Mashhadi Farahani M. The Relationship between Coping Strategies and Defense Styles with Death Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Students. JNIP 2024; 22 (26) :1-13
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
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The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between coping strategies and defense styles with death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic among students. The research method was correlational, and the statistical population included all students of Islamic Azad University in Karaj for the academic year 2021-2022. The sample was selected using a convenience sampling method, and the sample size was calculated to be 290 individuals using the Fidel and Tabachnick formula. Considering the possibility of excluding some participants due to data preprocessing, 320 questionnaires were distributed, and after preprocessing, 20 samples were removed, resulting in a final sample of 300 participants. The data collection tools included three questionnaires: the Lazarus and Folkman Coping Strategies Questionnaire (1985), the Andrews Defense Styles Questionnaire (1993), and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970). The research hypotheses were examined using Pearson correlation tests and regression analysis. The results of the correlation analysis indicated a negative correlation between problem-focused coping styles and mature defense mechanisms with students’ death anxiety, while a positive and significant correlation was found between emotion-focused coping styles and immature defense mechanisms with students’ death anxiety (p < 0.01). The regression analysis results showed that 39% of the variance in students’ death anxiety was explained by coping strategies and defense styles. According to the results of the regression coefficient matrix, there was a negative relationship between death anxiety with problem-focused strategies and mature defense mechanisms, with beta coefficients of (-0.216) and (-0.255), and a positive relationship with emotion-focused strategies, with a beta coefficient of (0.467) (p < 0.01). These findings emphasize the importance of considering coping strategies and defense styles in reducing death anxiety during critical situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic and can contribute to the design of psychological interventions for students.
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Received: 2025/05/18 | Revised: 2025/05/18 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30
Received: 2025/05/18 | Revised: 2025/05/18 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30
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