Examination of the Relationship between the Meaning of Life with Death Anxiety and Resilience during Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

The outbreak of Covid-19 has put the world at a horrible state, which directly and indirectly affects death anxiety and resilience. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between meaning of life with death anxiety and resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic with quantitative and correlational methods. To this end, a sample of 148 people (107 women and 41 men) was selected using simple random sampling method and the variables were measured using Meaning in Life Questionnaire by (Steger et al., 2006), Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970), and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (2003). The statistical method of analysis of variance was used for the main hypothesis and Pearson correlation for the subhypotheses and SPSS 23 for statistical data analysis. The results indicated that the main hypothesis had a significance level score of less than 0.1 and the sub-hypotheses less than 0.1, with a correlation coefficient of -0.37, 0.31 and -0.41. Therefore, the main hypothesis and the sub-hypotheses were confirmed and were significant. According to the results, one can increase resilience and reduce death anxiety by strengthening meaning and giving meaning to life to maintain mental health at the time of COVID-19 outbreak.