scholarly journals Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of Abdel-Khalek’s Death Anxiety Scale among College Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aybala Saricicek Aydogan ◽  
Seref Gulseren ◽  
Ozyil Ozturk Sarikaya ◽  
Cigdem Ozen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Turkish Version

Some Reliability and Validity Considerations on Australian Data from the Death Anxiety Scale

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. G. Warren ◽  
P. N. Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Do So

Data derived from an administration of the Death Anxiety Scale [1] to Australian samples is analyzed with a view to providing comparative cross-cultural observations as well as some indication of realiability and validity in the Australian context. Measures of central tendency and dispersion and sex differences were found to be comparable with other surveys of similar groups to those of the present study. The Scale does not appear to suffer from acquisence set, is internally reliable and groups that would be expected to score lower than others, do so – providing some indication of construct validity. The Scale is not “factorially-pure,” however, and at least three “sub-scales” can be identified. These sub-scales are analyzed and discussed.

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.

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.

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.

Death, Anxiety, and Depression in Kuwaiti Undergraduates

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Neurotic Disorder ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Trait ◽  
Psychometric Instruments ◽  
And Gender

The present investigation is a replication study on a Kuwaiti sample using the same psychometric instruments which have been previously administered to Egyptian and Lebanese college students. A Kuwaiti sample of undergraduates ( N 215) responded to the death anxiety scale (DAS), death depression scale (DDS), as well as the general anxiety (Trait; STAI-T) and general depression (BDI) scales. Administration of the scales was carried out in 1997–98. Alpha reliabilities were high. All of the intercorrelations ( r) between the four scales were statistically significant: DAS and DDS r .733, DAS and STAI-T r .412, DAS and BDI r .363, DDS and STAI-T .293, DDS and BDI r .273, and BDI and STAI-T r .739. All the correlations between the last mentioned four scales and gender were statistically significant, that is females attained high scores. Two orthogonal factors were extracted: general neurotic disorder and death distress. The main findings are congruent with previous results on US, Egyptian, and Lebanese participants.

scholarly journals A Turkish Version of Foreign Language Anxiety Scale: Reliability and Validity

2016 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 250-256
Author(s):  
Selami Aydın ◽  
Leyla Harputlu ◽  
Serhat Güzel ◽  
ſeyda Savran ÿelik ◽  
ÿzgehan Uſtuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Scale Reliability

scholarly journals DEATH ANXIETY SCALE

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (06) ◽  
pp. 723-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamkeen Saleem ◽  
Seema Gul ◽  
Shemaila Saleem
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Correlation Factor ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Adequate Reliability

Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have the symptoms of anxiety incommon that may result in adverse outcomes. Objectives: Due to the significant associationof anxiety and CVD, scheduled screening of all cardiac patients has been recommended bythe medical authorities like the American Heart Association. But in Pakistan it is not a commonpractice to use such tools, reason being unavailability of such screening tools in nationallanguage therefore specifically death anxiety is unrecognized and no measures are takenfor it and patients remain undertreated with death anxiety that may eventually influence onthe treatment and prognosis of the patients. Data source& Settings: Colleges and hospitalsof the Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Period: 6 months. Methods: The study was designed totranslate and validate the Death Anxiety Scale in Urdu language to be used with Pakistanipopulation. The sample consisted of 210 participants (70 Youngsters (normal group) 70 Elderlyand 70 patients with cardiovascular diseases (clinical group) from colleges and hospitals of theRawalpindi and Islamabad. To determine the psychometric properties, reliability and validity;cronbach alpha, split-half reliability, correlation, factor analysis were computed. Results: DeathAnxiety Scale-Urdu (DAS-U)( ) has adequate reliability and validity. Factor analysisshowed multifaceted structure for the DAS-U, bearing in mind the apposite psychometriccharacteristics; it can be used in researches about death anxiety. Conclusions: The use ofthe scale is reasonable for the measurement of death anxiety in CVD patients and it can beemployed in order to have successful treatment and improve the prognosis of the patients.

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