Social support and its relation with death anxiety for olds who are listed at the Palestinian ministry of social affairs in the Jerusalem governorate

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the social support and its relation with death anxiety for
olds who are listed at the Palestinian ministry of social affairs in the Jerusalem governorate,
the researcher uses the descriptive method and she bases her research on two types of
criterion: the social support and the criterion of death anxiety, these two criterion are applied
on a stratified random sample, amounted to (184) of the elderly.
The results show no statistical differences in the level of social support for olds who
are listed at the Palestinian ministry of social affairs according to the variables of sex.
Whereas there are statistical differences in the level of social support for those olds according
to the variable of the number of children for those who have more than seven children, in
addition to the variable of diseases they have comparing with those who do not suffer from
any disease. In addition, the data does not show statistical differences of death anxiety
amongst the olds according to the variables of sex and the number of children. Nevertheless,
these differences present in the death anxiety level according to the variable of age for those
who are up to eighty years, the variable of diseases for those who have chronic diseases, the
data also shows that there is A relation between the death anxiety and the social support for
those olds who are listed at the Palestinian ministry of social affairs in the Jerusalem
governorate.