Relationship of religious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatization symptoms in women

Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship of religious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatization symptoms in women. Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical society of this study. 140 women, who had been selected randomly by multistage cluster sampling method, responded orderly to the questionnaires of religious orientation, attitudes toward death, quality of life and somatization symptoms. Collected data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression tests. The results showed that quality of life has a positive correlation with internal religious orientation and the attitudes of approach acceptance toward death. Somatization symptoms also related positively to the attitudes of avoidance of death and escape acceptance. Furthermore results of regression analyze showed that 14 percent of women’s life quality variance was explained by internal religious orientation and the attitudes of avoidance of death. Regression of somatization symptoms based on religious orientation and attitudes about death was not significant. This results reveal religious and spiritual bases and consequently the death attitudes as one of the effective variables on the women quality of life and their health.