Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between the meaning of life and future anxiety among cancer survivors in Riyadh. The study sample consisted of 208 individuals, and the meaning of life scale developed by Abdullah, Qasim, and Ibrahim (2016) and the future anxiety scale developed by Choucair (2005) were employed, with their psychometric properties distinguished. According to the study's findings, there is a statistically significant negative correlation between the total degree of meaning in life and the total degree of future anxiety among cancer survivors. And the existence of statistically significant differences in the meaning of life and its dimensions at the level (0.01) among the recovered according to the age variable in favour of the category (15-24 years and older) and the word meaning level. According to the cancer type variable, life for each of (life purpose, hope and adherence to life, and the value of suffering) favours recovery from liver cancer. There is statistical significance at the level (0.05) in favour of the married study participants in the meaning of life for each (the purpose of life, the value of suffering) as a function of marital status. There are statistically significant differences in future anxiety and its dimensions at the level of 0.01 among the recoveries according to the age variable in favour of study participants (45 years and older) and the type of cancer variable in favour of study participants recovering from breast cancer. There are no statistically significant differences between the levels of life meaning and future anxiety among cancer survivors according to a variable (gender, recovery period) (sex, marital status, recovery period). Finally, the results demonstrated the possibility of predicting future anxiety using the meaning of life dimensions as an independent variable responsible for explaining (66.7%) the variance in future anxiety among cancer survivors.