Pung Pit Wan’s research while affiliated with Tunku Abdul Rahman University and other places

Research has shown links between nonattachment, sense of coherence, and death anxiety, but their interrelationship remains unexplored. From the view of Buddhist-based psychology, we proposed an indirect-only mediation model, hypothesizing that nonattachment reduces death anxiety only by enhancing the sense of coherence. A study of 91 Chinese seniors using purposive and snowball sampling supported this hypothesis. Participants completed scales measuring nonattachment, sense of coherence, and death anxiety. Results indicated no direct effect of nonattachment on death anxiety but confirmed an indirect effect through the sense of coherence. These results align with the Humanistic Buddhist’s view of virtue, meditation, and wisdom, suggesting that nonattachment fosters wisdom to understand, manage, and find meaning in life’s challenges, thereby reducing death anxiety. The study highlights the complex relationship between these factors and their potential implications for managing end-of-life concerns.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken most part of the world by surprise. The orders of nationwide movement control and social distancing by the Malaysian authority to curb the spread of the airborne virus have sent working-class families into a novel work-from-home condition. This study aimed to examine the association between positive experiences in parent-child relationships, parental stress and working parents' psychological well-being in Malaysia during the pandemic by considering the mediating role of parental stress and the moderating role of parental gender role. A total of 214 working-from-home parents (M age = 46.39; SD age = 9.06; 51.9% working mothers; 76.6% Chinese) participated in a cross-sectional quantitative online survey. A significant positive relationship was found between parent-child relationships and parents' psychological well-being. Parental stress was negatively correlated with parent-child relationships and parents' psychological well-being. Meanwhile, parental stress significantly mediates the link between parent-child relationships and parents' psychological well-being. Besides, parental gender role was found to be a significant moderator where fathers experience better psychological well-being when they have more positive parent-child relationships. The findings further support the importance of positive interaction between parents and children and parental stress, which could affect parents' psychological well-being. This study may fill a knowledge gap by providing an overview of working parents' psychological well-being in their experience of working from home during the pandemic.