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Abstract

This study aimed to predict death anxiety based on life expectancy, retirement anxiety, attachment to God, and self-compassion. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study included all the retirees of the General Department of Education of Gilan province. In this research, 400 retired people from education and training in Gilan province participated voluntarily. The tools were death anxiety scale (Templer, 1970), life expectancy questionnaire (Schneider, 1991), retirement anxiety scale (Fletcher and Hansson, 1991), attachment to God inventory (Beck and McDonald, 2004), and self-compassion scale (Neff, 2003). Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation test and multiple linear regression in SPSS 26 software. Statistical analysis showed there was a significant relationship between life expectancy and death anxiety (r=0.798), retirement anxiety and death anxiety (r=0.856), attachment to God and death anxiety (r=0.509), and self-compassion and death anxiety (r=0.408) at a significance level of (sig=0.000). It was also found that life expectancy with an impact factor of -0.290, attachment to God with an impact factor of -0.538, and self-compassion with an impact factor of -0.479 have a negative impact and retirement anxiety with an impact factor of 0.572 has a positive impact on death anxiety. Retirement anxiety increases death anxiety and life expectancy, attachment to God and self-compassion decrease death anxiety among retirees‎.