Comparison of death anxiety, self esteem and personality traits of the people who live in Turkey and Denmark

The aim of this research is to investigate death anxiety of the people who have the same cultural background but live in different countries. Cross cultural studies about death anxiety had been conducted with two different cultures. The goal is to fill this gap in the literature. In this context, participants' self-esteem and personality traits were also investigated. There are researches showing that both self-esteem and personality traits have relations with death anxiety. However, results of these researches are inconsistent. They were investigated by looking their relations to death anxiety to support literature. Death Anxiety Scale, Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale and 5 Factor Personality Scale were used in this study. 74 people from Turkey and 67 from Denmark participated in this research. To investigate people's death anxiety independent sample t-test was conducted. According to the results people who live in Turkey have more death anxiety. There is negative correlation between self-esteem and death anxiety. Neuroticism of the personality traits has positive correlation with death anxiety.