Using a lifespan perspective, we investigated a neglected aspect of research on religion, namely, whether perceptions of growth from adversity might strengthen religious worldviews, thus accounting for feelings about one's own death in old age. A directed content analysis of in-depth interviews from 16 adults aged 65+ focused on life events, religious worldviews, and death. Findings suggested that participants’ religious worldview beliefs were associated with positive reinterpretation of lifespan adversities such that stressors functioned as opportunities for spiritual growth. Participants’ views of and beliefs about death were without fear, indicating the potential influence of highly individualized and deeply spiritual religious worldview beliefs on the abatement of death fear.

从寿命的角度，我们调查了宗教研究中一个被忽视的方面，即从逆境中成长的看法是否会加强宗教世界观，从而解释对自己晚年死亡的感受。对 16 名 65 岁以上成年人的深度访谈进行定向内容分析，重点关注生活事件、宗教世界观和死亡。研究结果表明，参与者的宗教世界观信仰与对寿命逆境的积极重新解释有关，因此压力源可以作为精神成长的机会。参与者对死亡的看法和信念没有恐惧，表明高度个性化和深刻的精神宗教世界观信念对减轻死亡恐惧的潜在影响。