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.

Semantic Habits and Attitudes of Black College Students

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-969
Author(s):  
Kathleen Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Black College ◽  
Black College Students ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
White College

In exploring the associative patterns and attitudes toward self and others, some measures were obtained on 79 black and 97 white college students. Results show reduced tendencies of the black students to use positive evaluational concepts in association. Black females are much like black males in associative patterns. There is no difference in the reported self-concepts of black and white females. Black males, however, reported more positive self-concepts than white males.

A Decade Later: Black-White Attitudes Toward Women's Familial Role

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Crovitz ◽  
Anne Steinmann
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
White Women ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Ideal Woman ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Role Concept ◽  
The Ideal

A comparison of the perceptions of Black and White undergraduate students of the 1960's (n = 396) and 1970's (n = 587) of women's familial role using the Maferr Inventory of Feminine Values indicated an increasing liberalization of role concept across the decade. Most discrepancy occurred between white males' view of the Ideal woman and white females' view of man's Ideal Woman, with white women not believing the degree of liberalization of the white male's conception of Ideal Woman. Blacks in general have a more liberalized view of women's familial role, and there is less discrepancy between black males' and females' views of women's familial role than amongst whites. Women's Ideal Self is more traditional currently, than women's Actual Self.

The Attitudes of Black Females toward Upper and Lower Class Black Males

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine B. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Word List ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Female College ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males

Sarbin's adjective word list was administered to 100 Black female college students. The subjects were asked to select adjectives which they thought described upper and lower class Black and white males, and to assign favorability ratings to the adjectives. Both groups of Black males were assigned more favorable traits than both groups of white males.

Femininity-Masculinity of Blacks and Whites over a Fourteen-Year Period

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Standardization Sample ◽  
White Males ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
White College ◽  
Femininity Scale

From 1973 through 1986 black and white college students took the Gough Femininity Scale. 1528 black females were not different from 936 white females, nor were 664 black males different from 554 white males. There were no apparent trends of increasing or decreasing femininity or masculinity, nor decreasing differences between men and women over the length of the study. Scores from 1973 through 1986 were not different from Gough's 1952 standardization sample.

Relationship of Religiosity to Death Anxiety of Middle-Aged Males

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Probability Sample ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of

The purpose of this study was to determine how religiosity was related to death anxiety among a group of middle-aged men. A non-probability sample of 237 male volunteers between the ages of 40 and 59 yr. of whom 88.7% were engaged in professional occupations completed a questionnaire composed of various research instruments. A single composite score for religiosity was obtained through a principal-components analysis of 13 items selected, adjusted, and compiled by Downey (1980) from various religiosity scales. Boyar's Fear of Death Scale assessed death anxiety, while “experience of death” was measured by three items and was utilized as a control variable in determining the association between religiosity and death anxiety. Analysis indicated that “experience of death” or the amount of contact the male has had with death was not related to death anxiety. Data did not support the prediction that those males who were less religious would exhibit higher scores on death anxiety than would those men who were more religious. Further analyses demonstrated a curvilinear relationship between religiosity and death anxiety. The middle-aged men who were moderately religious evidenced a significantly higher fear of death than the men who were either low or high in religiosity.

Relationship of Reference Group to Perception of Humor

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Buckalew ◽  
K. E. Coffield
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Group Influence ◽  
Black Females ◽  
White Males ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Relationship Of

Psychosocial importance of humor in reduction of anxiety and communication was developed, with specific consideration of group influence on perception of humor. Subjects were 15 black females, 20 white females, 13 black males, and 16 white males. Cartoons depicting seven humorous themes were rank ordered in terms of ‘funniness.’ Group mean ranks were transformed into ordinal integers. Groups applied similar concepts of humor to rankings ( W = .68, p < .05), though rank correlations showed significant relationships only between white females, black females, and white males.

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.

Expectations and achievement among third-, sixth-, and ninth-grade Black and White males and females.

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine F. Fulkerson ◽  
Susan R. Furr ◽  
Duane Brown
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Males And Females

Intellectual Differences in Black and White Southern Low Achievers

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1269-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theron M. Covin ◽  
Gary L. Hatch
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Standard Deviations ◽  
Verbal Performance

WISC IQs obtained by 300 black children and 300 white children were compared. The subjects were 15 white males, 15 white females, 15 black males, and 15 black females at each age level from 6 to 15 yr. Mean IQs on the Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale for blacks were 6968, 6992, and 6691 respectively and were significantly lower than the respective average of 7980, 7980, and 7950 for whites. Means, standard deviations, and ts for stratified samples by sex and race were also reported.

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