[[alternative]]A study on the Relationships between Afterlife Beliefs and Attitude Toward Death among the Buddhism and Christianity Aged people in Taipei

[[abstract]]本研究以台北市及新北市某宗教團體集會處所，60歲以上信仰佛教與基督宗教之老年人為研究對象，有效樣本106份。研究方法採問卷調查方式，進行量化分析，經項目分析後修改蔡明昌編製之「來生信念量表」、Wang，Reker及Gesse編製之「死亡態度量表」為本研究中施測工具，將資料進行分析討論後，得到結論如下：一、老年人的性別、年齡、教育程度與宗教信仰對其來生信念有顯著 相關。二、老年人的性別、婚姻狀況、教育程度、宗教信仰對死亡態度有顯著相關。三、老年人的來生信念與死亡態度具有顯著性相關。[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among afterlife beliefs, death attitude on the elderly people. In order to achieve the purpose mentioned above, a questionnaire survey method was conducted, 106 elderly people ecompleted two questionnaires.The results revealed the following main findings:1. The effect of elderly people’s gender, age, education level and religious on afterlife beliefs was significant.2. The effect of elderly people’s gender, marital status, education level and religious on attitude toward death was significant.3. There was significant correlation between the elderly people，s afterlife beliefs and death attitude