A Correlational study on late adolescent Filipino UP students' death perceptions and death attitudes and their religious orientation

Abstract

Ninety-seven (97) late adolescent (18 to 25 years old) Filipino UP students have been purposively sampled to answer self-administered questionnaires to suffice the general objective of correlating death perceptions and death attitudes to their religious orientation. In correlating death perceptions and religious orientation, results from Pearson Product-Moment Correlation show negative correlation at almost all correlations, except for noncorporeal continuation and religious orientation correlation scores, which garnered a positive one. It means that the relationship between religious orientation and death perceptions and death attitudes is inversely proportional – as one increase, the other decreases. On the other note, the absence of correlation on those responses coming from participants without any death experience state that it affects the relationship of death perceptions and death attitudes to religious orientation.