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.”

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.

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

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 940-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Male College ◽  
Male College Students

Correlations for scores on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale indicate a lack of validity for Templer's scale.

Relationship between Death Anxiety and Components of the Self-Actualization Process

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc E. Vargo ◽  
William M. Batsel
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Time Competence

Product-moment correlations for 35 nursing students' scores on the Death Anxiety Scale and on three scales and subscales of the Personal Orientation Inventory (Self-acceptance, r = −.85; Nature of Man-Constructive, r = −.54; Time Competence, r = −.38) suggest an inverse relationship between self-actualization and the fear of death.

Death Discomfort Differential

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Triplett ◽  
David Cohen ◽  
Wilbert Reimer ◽  
Sharon Rinaldi ◽  
Curtis Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Item Scale ◽  
Death Depression

The differential correlations of death depression and death anxiety were explored. Death anxiety was more highly correlated with general anxiety, the four subscales of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, female gender, and less religiosity. Death depression was more associated with general depression. Such differentiation could not be made with the raw scores of the Death Depression Scale and the Death Anxiety Scale. A differentiation was made, however, using a new ten-item scale based upon factor scores of the two above scales.

Convergent Validity of the Templer, Collett-Lester, and Arabic Death Anxiety Scales: Rejoinder

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1171-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Pearson Correlations

The Templer Death Anxiety Scale, the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety by Abdel-Khalek, and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 81 male and female Kuwaiti undergraduates enrolled in social science courses ( M age = 22.0 yr., SD = 2.3). Pearson correlations between the total scores were significant and positive. Only one high-loaded factor was extracted and labeled General Death Anxiety, indicating good convergent and factorial validity of these scales.

Death Anxiety Scale Means and Standard Deviations for Ontario Undergraduates and Funeral Directors

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette H. Schell ◽  
J. Terence Zinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Community College ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Funeral Directors ◽  
Funeral Service ◽  
The Stability

Templer's Death Anxiety Scale is a 15-item true-false inventory designed to assess death anxiety in individuals. This procedure, developed and tested in the United States, has here been applied to a Canadian sample of 340 respondents: 42 community college computer science students, 93 university students, 56 community college funeral service students, and 149 licensed funeral service directors in Ontario. In doing so, the stability of previous USA findings and the reliability and generalizability of the instrument have also been investigated. The instrument was distributed to all respondents by mail. A major finding was that funeral directors appear to have lower death anxiety than college students. Implications of this research along educational lines are discussed.

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.

Use of the Death Anxiety Scale in an Inter-Racial Jetting

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Pandey ◽  
Donald I. Templer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
Mean Differences ◽  
Lincoln University ◽  
White College

The purpose of this study was to assess possible differences between black and white college students on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and to determine whether the DAS adequately measures death anxiety in black populations. Ss were 258 undergraduates from Lincoln University, 124 whites (66 males; 58 females) and 134 blacks (72 males; 62 females). No mean differences between race and sex categories were found to be significant. Therefore, the assumption is supported that blacks and whites share similar attitudes toward death.

Death Anxiety Scales: A Dialogue

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Donald Templer
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Place Of Death ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Development And Utilization

Death anxiety scales have established themselves as the most frequently used type of instrument in studies of attitudes toward death-related topics. Two researchers who have contributed significantly to the development and utilization of this approach discuss its origins, uses, results, limitations, and future, along with comments regarding the place of death anxiety scales in their own lives and careers. David Lester is the author of the first critical survey of death anxiety measures, and has developed his own scales and conducted numerous studies in the realms of suicide as well as the fear of death [1]. Donald Templer developed his Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) in response to Lester's critique of existing measures [2, 3]. The DAS has been used extensively by Templer and his colleagues as well as many other researchers.

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