The Relationship of Impulsive Sensation-Seeking, Humor and Religious Attitude with Death Anxiety

The present research investigates the relationship of impulsive sensationseeking, humor and religious attitude with death anxiety among the students. To this end, a sample including 375 individuals was selected from a statistical population of students from Shahid Bahonar University-Kerman for the academic year of 2010-2011, and a multi-stage random cluster sampling was used. The fifth form of Zuckerman's questionnaire sensationseeking-, Martin's questionnaire on humor, Khodayarifard's questionnaire on religious attitude, and Templer's questionnaire on death anxiety were used for gathering the data. These data were analyzed by using such statistical indexes like correlation and regression. The results of the data analysis show that there is a significant negative relationship between impulsive sensation seeking and death anxiety (r=0/363), a significant positive relationship between humor and death anxiety (r=0/408), and a significant negative relationship between religious attitude and death anxiety (r-0/380) (a=0/05).