The relationship between defensive styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies anxiety death in the elderly

Death anxiety is an unusual and great fear of death that is accompanied by emotions such as fear of death or apprehension when thinking about the process of dying or what happens after death. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between defensive styles and cognitive regulation strategies. The excitement was the anxiety of death among elderly men and women in Urmia. For this purpose, in a descriptive correlational study, 250 elder (52 women and 198 men) were selected, available for sampling, and evaluated in terms of defensive styles, adjustment problems, and death anxiety. The results of regression analysis showed that the use of defensive styles, increases the rate of death anxiety in the elderly. It was also found that the relationship between undeveloped defensive styles and overall death anxiety was significant, and in developed defensive styles with death anxiety, this relationship was confirmed. The results of this study showed that cognitive emotion regulation strategies are able to predict and explain anxiety disorders; also, death anxiety can be predicted by acceptance variable up to 15%, by acceptance and catastrophizing variables up to 28%, by acceptance, catastrophizing, and blaming others variables up to 29%, and by acceptance, catastrophizing, blaming others, and positive reassessment variables up to 31%.