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.

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.

The Spanish Form of the Death Depression Scale

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Tomás-Sábado ◽  
Juana Gómez-Benito
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Death Depression

The aims were to estimate the psychometric properties of the Spanish form of the Death Depression Scale and to compare these with those of other versions of the scale. The Death Depression Scale was administered to a sample of 218 Spanish student nurses, together with Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and measures of general depression and anxiety. The Cronbach coefficient α was 83, and a 4-wk. test-retest correlation was .87. The correlations with scores on other tests were similar to those obtained in former studies. After applying a principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation, four factors with eigenvalues greater than one were identified. These factors were labeled Death Sadness, Death Finality, Meaninglessness of Life, and Feeling of Loss. Generally speaking, the results favour consideration of the Death Depression Scale as a valid and reliable means of assessment among Spanish-speaking individuals.

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 Impact of Education and Death-Related Experiences on Rehabilitation Counselor Attitudes Toward Death and Dying

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traci Haas-Thompson ◽  
Paul P. Alston ◽  
Don Holbert
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Counselor Attitudes ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

This study examined whether rehabilitation counselor exposure to death education and personal death-related experiences were related to attitudes toward their own death and the dying of others. One hundred forty-eight rehabilitation counselors employed by the North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation completed the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale (FDS), and Death Depression Scale-Revised (DDS-R). The number of personal death experiences and exposure to death education were significantly related to less fear of death among participating counselors. Rehabilitation counselors with master's degrees also expressed less fear of death than those with bachelor degrees, perhaps related to grief and loss issues typically taught in the psychosocial aspects of disability classes.

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.”

Are Death Anxiety and Death Depression Distinct Entities?

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Alvarado ◽  
Donald I. Templer ◽  
Charles Bresler ◽  
Shan Thomas-Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Subjective Distress ◽  
Factor Loadings ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Life Factor ◽  
Death Depression

Subjective distress about the matter of death is widely recognized by thanatology scholars to be multiple faceted. Although there are several instruments that assess anxiety or fear regarding death, until recently there had been no instrument reported in the literature for measuring depression pertaining to death. In the present study the fifteen-item Death Anxiety Scale and the more recently constructed seventeen-item Death Depression Scale were correlated, and their combined thirty-two items were factor analyzed. The two scales correlated .55. Factor 1 was labeled “death anxiety” and its five highest factor loadings were with Death Anxiety Scale items. Factor 2 was labeled “death depression” and its five highest factor loadings were with Death Depression Scale items. Factors 3 and 4 each had the highest factor loadings on both Death Anxiety Scale and Death Depression Scale items and were respectively called “death of others” and “brevity of life.” Factor 5 was called “meaning-lessness of life” and its highest factor loadings were with Death Depression Scale items. It was concluded that the two death attitude instruments do have discriminant validity in relationship to each other. Also, suggestions were made for the combined use of these two scales.

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.

Attitudes Toward Aging and Death Anxiety: Aging and Death Class

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Davis-Berman
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Aging ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Aging Class

Attitudes toward aging and fear of death were examined and compared before and after completion of a course on aging or a course on death and dying. Dramatic decreases in fear of death were observed in both classes at post-test. Despite the reduction in fear, the death class maintained negative attitudes toward aging. The aging class, however, managed to maintain positive attitudes toward older adults, while at the same time reducing death anxiety. Contradictions with the existing literature are discussed, and implications are presented for course development and implementation.

Death Anxiety, Death Depression, Death Distress, and Death Discomfort Differential: Adolescent-Parental Correlations in Filipino and American Populations

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilbert Reimer ◽  
Donald I. Templer
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
Death Depression

In both an American and Filipino population considerable family resemblance in death anxiety, death depression, and death distress was found. In both populations the death attitude measures of adolescents correlated with those of their parents, but the correlations were higher between the mothers and fathers. Most of the correlations were higher for the Filipino than for the American participants, and it was suggested that this is a function of closer family life in the Philippines. Although family resemblance on the Death Anxiety Scale was first reported by Templer, Ruff, and Franks [1] and confirmed by subsequent authors, the present study was the first study that addressed family resemblance on the more recently constructed Death Depression Scale or death distress (the sum of the z scores of Death Anxiety Scale and Death Depression Scale). In the American population, Catholics had significantly higher death anxiety and death depression and death distress scores than Protestants, and Hispanics had significantly higher death anxiety, death depression, and death distress scores than Euro-Americans. Clinical and research implications were discussed.

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