Belief in Afterlife and Death Anxiety: Correlates and Comparisons

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Aday
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
The Relationship

Previous investigations of the relationship between death anxiety and belief in afterlife have often yielded inconsistent results. In an attempt to establish a common linkage between the two variables, this study investigated key variables associated with death anxiety and belief in afterlife among a group of college students. The respondent's sex, race, educational level, family income, church membership, frequency of church attendance, and intensity of religious beliefs were employed as control variables. Results support the notion that belief in afterlife is primarily a function of religion and not, at least directly, a correlate of fear of death. While all the control variables were found to be significantly related to either death anxiety or belief in afterlife, only church attendance was found to be significantly related to both.

Death Anxiety, Death Depression, and Death Obsession: A General Factor of Death Distress is Evident: A Reply

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1212-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Death Depression

A sample of 75 (16 men, and 59 women) Kuwaiti college students responded to Templer's and Collett-Lester Death Anxiety Scales, Templer, et al.'s Death Depression Scale and Abdel-Khalek's Death Obsession Scale. A general high-loaded factor of death distress was extracted using the total scores. However, in using the Collett-Lester four subscales, the Fear of Death and Dying of Others loaded on a second factor.

Relationship between the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 561-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Var Go
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Relationship

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.

The Value of the Self in Relation to Fear of Death

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Aronow ◽  
Alan Rauchway ◽  
Marshall Peller ◽  
Anthony De Vito
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Theoretical Position

A theoretical position on death anxiety advanced by previous authors was tested in this study. Diggory and Rothman reasoned that we try to extend objects that are valued highly, while those of low value are treated with indifference or destroyed. They therefore theorized that individuals who place a high value on the self would be more afraid of death. This was tested by correlating the Templer death anxiety scale with seven self-related measures. The participants in the study were 117 college students. The death anxiety scale was found to correlate significantly with self-related measures, but in the opposite direction from what was expected on the basis of the theory. The seven self-related measures were found to overlap extensively. The results do not support the theory, and were discussed in terms of a neuroticism factor and Frankl's “will to meaning.”

Mystical Experience as Related to Present and Anticipated Future Church Participation

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1127-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph W. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Initial Sample ◽  
Factor Ii ◽  
Church Participation ◽  
Exploratory Data ◽  
Experience Factor ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between reported mystical experience and present and anticipated patterns of church participation was investigated in an initial sample of 324 persons. A scale to measure reported mystical experience that allowed for a distinction between the report of mystical experience (Factor I) and its religious interpretation (Factor II) was utilized. Each factor differentially related to church denomination, frequency of church attendance, decision to change church membership, decision to quit church participation, and decision of non-church members to join a church. It was concluded that on the basis of these exploratory data the report of mystical experience is an important variable related to patterns of church participation.

Life Regrets and Death Attitudes in College Students

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Tomer ◽  
Grafton Eliason
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Life Regrets ◽  
Death Acceptance

The relationship between death attitudes and life regret was examined in college students. Two types of regret, past-related regret and future-related regret, were defined and measured. The results confirmed the hypothesis, based on a comprehensive model of death anxiety, that both types of regret independently predict fear and avoidance of death. Other background and self variables may affect death anxiety, usually indirectly, by influencing the two types of regret. Death acceptance, on the other hand, was found to be influenced directly by intrinsic religious motivation and indirectly by other background and self variables.

Convergent Validity of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death and Templer Death Anxiety Scales in Egyptian Male College Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Male College ◽  
Pearson Correlations ◽  
Male College Students

The Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 57 male Egyptian undergraduates. Pearson correlations between the total score on the Templer's scale and the four subscales of Collett-Lester's Fear of Self death, Self dying, Other's death, and Other's dying were .54, .55, .52, and .56, respectively, while the correlation between the total scores on the Collett-Lester and Templer scales was .73, denoting the convergent validity of the Collett-Lester scale against the Templer scale as criterion.

Repressed Fear of Inexistence and its Hypnotic Recovery in Religious Students

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Kunzendorf
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Hypnotic Responsiveness

When college students were hypnotized and instructed to rate their “subconscious” fears of death, they expressed greater fear, of inexistence than when they were awake. At the same time, hypnotized students expressed no greater fear of death-related possibilities other than the possibility of inexistence. The hypnotically elicited fear of inexistence was marginally associated with a stronger belief in an afterlife and was significantly associated with greater hypnotic responsiveness. Such findings contradict the orthodox religious position: that death anxiety is truly eradicated, not merely repressed, by belief in an afterlife. Such findings also contradict the orthodox psychoanalytic position: that conscious death anxiety is secondarily derived from the libidinous deprivations of a subconscious mind that cannot fear its own death. Instead, the present findings suggest that the subconscious fear of inexistence is a primary-not a derived-phenomenon, from which religious and other death-denying behaviors may be derived.

Relationship of Fear of Death and Level of Self-Esteem in College Students

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. Davis ◽  
Dan A. Martin ◽  
Cean T. Wilee ◽  
James W. Voorhees
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Relationship Of

Self-esteem and death anxiety instruments were administered to a total of 383 undergraduates; black and white, males and females were included in the sample. Consistent with previous data, higher scores on death anxiety were shown by female subjects. Black males displayed significantly higher self-esteem scores. An analysis of subgroups low and high in self-esteem produced support for a negative relationship between level of self-esteem and death anxiety.

Exploration of Death Anxiety as a Function of Religious Variables in Gay Men with and without Aids

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Franks ◽  
Donald I. Templer ◽  
Gordon G. Cappelletty ◽  
Inge Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Spiritual Belief ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of religious variables to death anxiety was investigated in fifty-one gay men with AIDS and sixty-four gay men without AIDS. Higher death anxiety in the men with AIDS was associated with greater church attendance, belonging to the religion of childhood, citing religion to have been “harmful,” and not adhering to a spiritual belief system independent of formal religion. Within the group of men without AIDS higher death anxiety was associated with having the same religion as in childhood.

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