Relationships between health personality and death anxiety: mediating role of death coping self-efficacy among Chinese clinical medical freshmen
This study revealed that clinical medical freshmen had high levels of death anxiety. Health neuroticism and death coping self-efficacy directly affected clinical medical freshmen' death anxiety. Death coping self-efficacy mediated the relationship between health neuroticism and death anxiety among clinical medical freshmen. Interventions by medical educators that focus on both individuals' health personality and death coping self-efficacy may be most effective in reducing death anxiety among clinical medical freshmen.
Authors
- Tianya Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0906-6009)
- Qiuxiang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2285-5678)
- Yiming Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-5554)
- Zhijie Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2541-2752)
- Huohuo Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7109-1163)
- Junping Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1816-1120)
- Enming Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0401-4608)
- Qing Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7569-3583)
- Xiao Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6120-3800)
- Huili Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5828-2942)
- Dezhao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5564-2369)
Institutions
- Leiden University (NL)
- Longyan University (CN)
- Wuhan University (CN)
- Wuhan Donghu University (CN)
- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (CN)
- Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Palliative Care
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01726-1
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.44