179 CURRENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.html Volume 12, No. 12 Submitted: March 5, 2007 First Revision: June 6, 2007 Accepted: July 2, 2007 Published: July 2, 2007 IMPACTS AND ADJUSTMENTS OF THE PHENOMENON, "DEATH," IN BANGLADESHI MUSLIMS WITH DIFFERENT EXTENTS OF RELIGIOSITY Mohammad Samir Hossain Mohammad Zakaria Siddique Tahmina Rahman Chowdhury Medical College for Women and Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh ABSTRACT In this study we took death as a universal phenomenon for all, not only for the aged or ill. According to the current non-religious trend, death ends one absolutely. But according to the religion of Muslims death is a significant event that does not end one absolutely. So a truly religious Muslim, an average religious Muslim and a less religious Muslim should perceive death differently. For the purpose of this research Bangladeshi Muslims in 5 groups were selected by stratified sampling technique. 30 Muslim in each group were selected randomly (total number of subjects were 150). According to the extent of religiosity the groups were given ordinal scores in a reverse manner, that is, it was a Reverse Religiosity Score (RRS). We gave two sets of lists to the Muslims in each group for giving checkmark according to their thoughts and conditions. One list contained the symptoms related to adjustment problems where death related adjustment was given priority. This list that we made with the help of DSM of APA yielded a score for each subject that we named Neurotic Symptom Score (NSS). The other list contained the stages of adjustment with death based on the description by Kubler-Ross that yielded an ordinal score for each subject. We named it Death Rejection Score (DRS) for the purpose of the research. We tabulated every score (RRS, NSS & DRS) for ANOVA and Correlation coefficient. The results were higher than the table values used for ANOVA and ‘P’ values were <.05 and <.01. The conclusion was, the more a Muslim (in Bangladesh) is religious, the better the psychological impact of death, thus adjustment with it.