Finally, conclusion, limitations and suggestions, and implications were discussed.īeliefs in supernatural evil have been widespread throughout human history, and they remain so today. Whereas non-significant results for the interactional effect of negative afterlife belief and religiosity were found which means no moderation occurred by negative afterlife belief. The significant moderation showed that positive relationship between religiosity and apeiroanxiety is weakened by positive afterlife belief. Results also showed significant results for the interactional effect of positive afterlife belief and religiosity which means moderation occurred. Findings of the study revealed that religiosity had significant positive relationship with apeiroanxiety (r=0.15**). Self-report measures were used including Apeiroanxiety Scale, Positive and Negative subscales of Afterlife Belief Scale for Muslims and Short Muslim Practice and Belief Scale Urdu version to measure apeiroanxiety, afterlife belief, and religiosity. Sample comprised of 800 Muslim participants. The study was conducted using correlational survey research design where convenient sampling technique was used for data collection. The present study was aimed at exploring the role of afterlife belief in relationship between religiosity and apeiroanxiety among Muslims. More often it is observed that more religious a person becomes, more knowledge of its teachings he gains and hence a clear understanding of infinite afterlife is made which is most often a source of fear and anxiety for most of the people. Islam has emphasized a lot upon the infinity of afterlife including infinite rewards and infinite punishments. Fear of Hell is itself associated with the various characteristics of belief in the model (e.g.,belief in hell and belief in free will).įear of infinity or aerophobia in terms of rational fear is known as apeiroanxiety. Fear of Hell is positively connected to a variety of negative psychological outcomes. Free Will-determination Scale: 17-119, 17 = "Least amount of free will belief". Death Anxiety Scale: 0-15, 15 = "Highest death anxiety". General anxiety (STICSA): 21-84, 84 = "Highest anxiety". Negative Religious Coping Scale, 7-28: 28 = "Highest negative religious coping". ![]() Fear of God: Factor of Religious Scrupulosity Scale, 0-20, 20 = "Highest fear of God". Self-identified likelihood of going to hell = "How likely is it that you will go to hell?" 1 = "Extremely unlikely", 7 = "Extremely likely". Religiosity = "To what extent do you consider yourself a religious person?" 1 = "Not religious at all", 5 = "Very religious". Hell belief = "Do you believe in hell?" 1 = "Definitely not", 5 = "Definitely yes". In the case of the two variables that are not acting as DVs, the number in the bottom right corner of the box is the variance and the number in the top right is the mean. The numbers attached to the error terms are the variance. The numbers attached to the boxes are the intercepts. Path analysis of HXS and Related Variables.
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