ABSTRACT
A Comprehensive Model of Death Anxiety (CMDA) was proposed by Tomer and Eliason. According to this model, death anxiety, defined as fear of death conceptualized as annihilation of the self, is related directly or indirectly to several types of belief: beliefs about the meaningfulness of death (or “death attitudes”), beliefs about the self, and beliefs about the world. Death attitudes together with attitudes about the self and the world are hypothesized to influence the level of death anxiety of an individual either directly or indirectly, by affecting death attitudes. Death salience and religiosity may also affect death anxiety directly or indirectly. A strong sense of coherence, a strong internal locus of control, a sense that the world is a just place, and a higher degree of self esteem are likely to reduce death anxiety either by having a direct effect or by affecting one’s attitudes about death.
