الأفكار اللاعقلانية و علاقتها بقلق الموت لدى مرضى القلب

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to identify the prevalence of the irrational thoughts among heart patients and their relationship to death anxiety.

The study also aimed to detect the differences in irrational thoughts and death anxiety among heart patients in relation to the variables of gender, age, economic level "income", social level, spiritual level.

The study made use of the comparative correlational descriptive method.

The study participants totaling (399) patients (males and females) were selected from heart patient at the hospitals of Abha and Khamis Mushayt.

An irrational thoughts scale by Al-Sherbiny (2005) and a death anxiety scale by shoucair (2009) were administered to fulfill the purpose of the study.

The results of the study showed that there was a statistically significant effect at 0.01 level in relation to (gender).

There was no statistically significant effect at 0.01 level in relation to (age).

There was no statistically significant effect of the interaction between the gender and age of heart patients on the scale of irrational thoughts.

There was no statistically significant effect of the economic level and there was a statistically significant effect of the (social) level in favor of the low levels at 0.01.

There was no statistically significant effect of the interaction between the economic and social levels of heart patients on the scale of irrational thoughts.

There was no statistically significant effect of the gender or age or the interaction between them on the variance of the heart patients degrees on death anxiety scale.

There was a statistically significant effect of the (social) level in favor of the low level at 0.01.

There was no statistically significant effect of the economic level, and there was no statistically significant effect of the interaction between them on the variance of the study participants’ degrees on the death anxiety scale.