Examining the Structural Model of the Relationship between Childhood Trauma and Death Anxiety with the Mediating Role of Uncertainty Intolerance in Female Students from Cultural Perspective

This study was aimed to examine the relationship between childhood trauma and death anxiety with the mediating role of uncertainty intolerance in female students from cultural perspective.The statistical population was particular to all female students of Karaj Islamic Azad University in 2024 academic year.249 participants were selected via convenient sampling procedure.The research method was descriptivecorrelational by utilizing the structural equations model.All the subjects responded to Collet-Lester Death Anxiety Questionnaire (1969), Freeston and colleagues Intolerance of Uncertainty Questionnaire (1994) and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire by Bernstein and colleagues (2003).SPSS software was used to measure the correlation between variables and Amos software to analyze the mediating variable.The findings indicated that childhood trauma directly impacted uncertainty intolerance.And uncertainty intolerance directly affected death anxiety while childhood trauma impressed death anxiety indirectly through uncertainty intolerance.Uncertainty intolerance had positive relationships with the both variables.The results also revealed that childhood trauma reducing indirectly led to decreasing of death anxiety and uncertainty intolerance played a significant role in this case.It could be concluded that culture oriented intervention improves uncertainty intolerance and decreases childhood trauma impact.