Adjustment and Death Anxiety among Youth: A Correlational Study

Death is the final destination of each living being and it gives meaning to life. Death anxiety means overwhelming fears of one's own death which distract us to live in present fully (Yalom, 1980) while adjustment refers to fulfilling the demands of the situation or environment by implementing suitable behavior patterns (Good, 1959). The present research is attempted to explore the relationship between death anxiety and adjustment among youth. The study sample consists of 100 college students aged 20 to 25 from MD University, Rohtak, Haryana. The scale of Adjustment Inventory by Ojha (2006) an Indian adaptation of the Bells adjustment inventory, and the Death anxiety scale by Chouhan and Tiwari (1971) was used for the present study. The results indicate that there is a significant negative relationship between social and emotional adjustment while there is no significant relationship between home and health adjustment with death anxiety. Therefore, initiatives can be taken by universities to reduce death anxiety and increase adjustment among youth, psychoeducation can be a way for this purpose.