Relations among Nightmare Frequency and Ego Strength, Death Anxiety, and Sex of College Students

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 1107-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Levin

The present study was designed to investigate empirically the relationship between self-reports of nightmare frequency and ego strength and death anxiety in both men and women. In addition, the interrelations among these variables were assessed. 20 undergraduates with high frequencies of nightmares and 20 with low frequencies (10 men and 10 women per group) were administered the Barron Ego Strength Scale and a death anxiety scale. Significant differences were found between nightmare groups on the Barron scale for men and women but none on the death anxiety scale either by nightmare frequency or sex. A significant negative correlation of -.47 between death anxiety and ego strength was found for women and in one high frequency group. Women with high frequencies of nightmares showed the highest correlation, -.83. These data suggest that nightmare frequency may be a mediating factor in the relationship between ego strength, death anxiety, and sex of subject.

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1107-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Levin

The present study was designed to investigate empirically the relationship between self-reports of nightmare frequency and ego strength and death anxiety in both men and women. In addition, the interrelations among these variables were assessed. 20 undergraduates with high frequencies of nightmares and 20 with low frequencies (10 men and 10 women per group) were administered the Barron Ego Strength Scale and a death anxiety scale. Significant differences were found between nightmare groups on the Barron scale for men and women but none on the death anxiety scale either by nightmare frequency or sex. A significant negative correlation of −.47 between death anxiety and ego strength was found for women and in one high frequency group. Women with high frequencies of nightmares showed the highest correlation, −.83. These data suggest that nightmare frequency may be a mediating factor in the relationship between ego strength, death anxiety, and sex of subject.


1993 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Cullen ◽  
M. J. Cinnamond

The relationship between diabetes and senbsorineural hearing loss has been disputed. This study compares 44 insulin-dependent diabetics with 38 age and sex matched controls. All had pure tone and speech audiometry performed, with any diabetics showing sensorineural deafness undergoing stapedial reflecx decat tests. In 14 diabetics stapedial reflex tests showed no tone decay in any patient, but seven showed evidence of recruitment. Analysis of vaiance showed the diabetics to be significantly deafer than the control population.The hearing loss affected high frequencies in both sexes, but also low frequencies in the male. Speech discrimination scores showed no differences. Further analysis by sex showed the males to account for most of the differences. Analysys of the audiograms showered mostly a high tone loss. Finally duration of disbetes, insulin dosage and family history of diabtes were not found to have a significant effect on threshold.


1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mahabeer ◽  
K. Bhana

Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Religious Orientation Scale of the OPI were administered to 360 Indian adolescents to examine the relationship between religion and religiosity and death anxiety. Muslim subjects were found to be more death anxious than Christian and Hindu subjects. The degree of commitment to one's religious practices and beliefs did not intensify or reduce death anxiety. Further, female subjects manifested higher death anxiety than male subjects. The results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.


1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 561-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Var Go

The present study investigated the relationship between the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the four subscales of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale. Product-moment correlations computed between 72 undergraduate nursing students' scores on these measures indicated that the two death anxiety scales were significantly correlated. Moreover, the Templer Death Anxiety Scale was most highly correlated with those Collett-Lester subscales which purportedly measure fears of one's own death and dying ( rs = .61, .51). The Templer scale appears to be not only a measure of death anxiety in general but also one of fears concerning personal demise in particular. Significant correlations between scales support their concurrent validity.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Arpaci ◽  
Mustafa Baloğlu ◽  
Şahin Kesici

This study aimed to investigate the impact of individual differences in mindfulness on nomophobia. We developed and validated two structural models to identify the relationship between mindfulness and nomophobia. The ‘Nomophobia Questionnaire’ and the ‘Mindful Attention Awareness Scale’ were used to obtain data from the subjects. One-way MANOVA results suggested a statistically significant difference in nomophobia based on higher versus lower mindfulness. Further, a multi-group analysis was conducted to test the hypothesized relationships in the structural models for men and women. The results revealed that mindfulness had a significant negative correlation with nomophobia for both men and women. As scores in mindfulness increased, subjects exhibited less nomophobic tendencies. Further, those subjects who had lower scores in mindfulness showed higher anxiety when they were unable to communicate. However, subjects who scored higher in mindfulness showed lower anxiety when they could not access desired information. Independent sample t-test results were variant across men and women in nomophobia. Based on the findings we conclude that mindfulness based treatments can be beneficial in dealing with nomophobia for women.


2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110652
Author(s):  
Zülfünaz Özer ◽  
Meyreme Aksoy ◽  
Gülcan Bahcecioglu Turan

This study was conducted to find out the relationship between death anxiety and religious coping styles in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. This cross-sectional and relational study was carried out with snowball sampling technique between May 15 and June 15, 2021. It was found that the participants had a mean Death Anxiety Scale total score of 10.42 [Formula: see text], they had a mean positive religious coping sub-scale score of [Formula: see text] and a mean negative religious coping sub-scale score of 12.82 [Formula: see text]. Statistically significant positive association was found between Death Anxiety Scale and Religious Coping Questionnaire’s both positive and negative coping sub-scale scores ( p < .05). It was found that patients diagnosed with COVID-19 had high level of death anxiety and positive religious coping styles. It was also found that death anxiety levels increased in the patients as their use of positive and negative coping increased.


1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Fleming

This study investigated the relationship between the extent of defensive responding on a perceptual recognition task and score on the Handal death anxiety scale. The results did not confirm the hypothesis that perceptually defensive respondents (those with elevated thresholds for death words as opposed to neutral words) would tend to have lower scores on the death anxiety inventory. Additional research into multilevel criteria of death anxiety is suggested along with improving the internal consistency of the Handal death anxiety scale.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuan Chen ◽  
Mohammed Albonaeem ◽  
Yeongmin Kim ◽  
Nam Jin Kim ◽  
Sang Hoon Lim ◽  
...  

A thermal-to-acoustic energy converter (TAC) was developed and tested to produce sound waves in the kilohertz range directly from solar energy. The converter consisted of a glass window and a small amount of steel wool in the shape of a disk sealed in an aluminum housing. A Fresnel lens and a chopper wheel with 60 holes in it were employed to generate a pulsed sunbeam of approximately 200 sun intensity as the heat source of the TAC. Various designs and techniques were tested to improve the sound amplitude and signal-to-noise ratio of the converter at high frequencies. Reduction in air volume, better cooling, and improvement in air tightness were found to be effective in enhancing the sound amplitude. A shockproof mount commonly used in radio studios to reduce microphone vibration was essential in noise reduction for the TAC at high chopper wheel rotations. The sound amplitude was found to rapidly decrease with the increase in pulse frequency of the sunbeam at low frequencies. The relationship between the decibel value and frequency of the generated sound waves was changed to linear for sunbeam frequencies above 1 kHz. This is the frequency at which the penetration of surface temperature fluctuations into the aluminum housing becomes comparable with the aluminum housing thickness. At a given frequency, the sound amplitude increased almost exponentially with the increase in solar flux intensity. To the best of our knowledge, the 3 kHz sound frequency measured in our experiments is by far the highest frequency produced by a solar-to-acoustical energy converter.


1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald I. Templer

The mean difference between men and women on the Death Anxiety Scale as found around the world seems to be higher in Arab countries. It was suggested that this is a function of larger sex-role differences in Arab countries.


2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Donald I. Templer ◽  
Ahmed Abdel-Khalek

Data are reported from samples of undergraduates around the world who have been administered Templer's Death Anxiety Scale. Data from 24 American samples and from 16 nations were identified. Strong sex differences were found and an association between the scores of men and women.


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