Study On Death Attitudes And Its Relationship With Self-esteem And Meaning Of Life Among Undergraduate Students

Death attitude is the different emotional reactions, evaluation and behavior tendency when people face death phenomenon. In recent years, the growing phenomenon that college students ignore lives makes the research of death attitude and life meaning became hot issues. After the analysis of the literature and of related research, we selected421full-time undergraduate students from Harbin normal university, Harbin industrial university and Heilongjiang university, using the survey method to study the relationships among students’death attitude, self-esteem and life meaning. The main conclusions are presented in terms of the following aspects.1. The scores of death attitude from high to low in turn are:naturally acceptance (3.84±0.43), death escape (2.71±0.60), approach acceptance (2.62±0.42), fear of death (2.51±0.47) and escape acceptance (2.48±0.53)2. On the self-esteem scale, gender, belief and professional field are not significant. There has significant differences on the interaction of the three aspects.3. The life meaning of undergraduate students maintained at the medium level. There is significant differences on gender.4. There is significant positive correlation among life goal, life attitude, life value, life independent sense, life meaning and self-esteem.5. Among life goal, life value, life independent sense, life meaning, fear of death, approach acceptance, escape acceptance, there has a negative correlation. The correlation among fear of death, death escape, approach acceptance, escape acceptance and life attitude.6. There is a significant negative correlation between self-esteem and escape acceptance.7. Self-esteem is mediation in the relationships between life meaning and death attitudes.