Abstract

Social relationships may influence overall health and death anxiety's occurrence among elderly people. This study aims to further explore the relationship between social intelligence and death anxiety to increase the understanding of factors influencing the health in elderly populations. 100 elderly subjects living in Iranshahr, Iran, were enrolled in this cross-sectional study to complete Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale. Social intelligence was found to have a negative relationship with the death anxiety (p > 0/005). The negative relationship between social intelligence and death anxiety suggests further strategies to promote social intelligence in the elderly population.