도시와 농촌아동의 죽음개념과 죽음불안 비교

The Concept of Death and the Death Anxiety of 5th Grade Students in Urban and Rural Elementary Schools

Purpose: This Study was to investigate 5th grade students' recognition of concepts of death(causality, cessation, irreversibility, inevitability) and the death anxiety(fear of death of self, fear of dying of self, fear of death of others, fear of dying of others) and to find out the correlation between the concept of death and the death anxiety among the students' in urban and rural areas. Methods: From September 1st to September 12th of 2008, 305 of 5th grade students from urban elementary schools and 195 of 5th grade students from rural elementary schools(total of 500 students) were interviewed with ready prepared questionnaires. The data were analysed by SPSS 14.0. Results: First, There was no significant difference between the urban and rural 5th grade students on the general concept of death and death anxiety. Second, The student's degree of recognition on the death as the concept of cessation was lowest(F=5.155, p=.006), and rural student's was higher than urban student's(1.59 vs 1.35). Third, The important variable was sex(t=-4.888, p=.000). The girls' degree of death anxiety in general and subcategory of all were higher than boys'. Conclusion: The development and application of proper death education program based on the result of this study was recommended.