Death Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Mental Health of Earthquake Survivors of Union Ganji, Gilgit Baltistan

Abstract

The current study was conducted by utilizing the Cross-sectional research design of survey method to check the relationship between death anxiety and mental wellbeing and the role of posttraumatic growth between their relationship. Survey method is one of the most common methods utilized to go through quantitative method to study a specific topic. A correlation research design was used to study the relationship between the variables of earthquake survivors. The purposive sampling technique was used to collect data. The Templar death anxiety scale, Posttraumatic growth (short form) Scale and Mental wellbeing scale were used. Results statistics also show that there is a significance relationship between DE and MWB. There is positive correlation between mediator posttraumatic growth and the mental weal being (0.586, p<0.001). In conclusion, the findings of the present study suggest that posttraumatic growth plays a significant protective role in enhancing mental wellbeing and reducing the negative effects of death anxiety among earthquake survivors.