BIO

Arianna Khan is a second-year FSU student pursuing a Psychology degree. As a UROP student, she assisted with editing and writing papers on suicide correlates and behaviors. Arianna is planning to continue DIS in the Joiner lab and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in the future.

Examining the Relationship Between Religiosity and Fearlessness About Death

Abstract

This study aimed to determine if there was a relationship between religiosity and fearlessness about death (FAD). We sampled 118 undergraduate students from a large, southeastern university. Religiosity was measured through a sliding scale to indicate the depth of participants' religious belief. The Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale—Fearlessness About Death (ACSS-FAD) was used to determine participants fearlessness about death through the total scores from 7 item measures. After a linear regression analysis, it was determined that there was no significant relationship between religiosity and FAD, when religiosity was treated as the independent variable, and FAD as the dependent variable.

Keywords: religion, fearlessness, death