Age, Gender, and Living Circumstances: Discriminating Older Adults on Death Anxiety

Madnawat, A. V. S.; Kachhawa, P Singh

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“…Abdel-Khalek and Al-Kandari found Kuwaiti middle-aged women had a significantly higher mean ASDA total score also on 17 out of 20 items of the scale [26]. On the Death Anxiety Survey Schedule from an Indian perspective, Madnawat and Kachhawa indicated that women were significantly more anxious about the word of death [32]. Abdel-Khalek et al found that, on the ASDA, Egyptian, Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Syrian, Spanish, and American women (no English women) had significant higher mean scores than men [29].…”

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Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

Dadfar

Lester

Bahrami

2016

Journal of Aging Research

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The present study is aimed at examining the level of death anxiety and the sex-related differences among old-aged Iranian individuals sample to compare the old-aged persons with young college students and to explore the psychometric properties of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) factors in old-aged sample. A sample of 146 volunteer Iranian individuals took part in the study. The mean ages were 68.58 (SD = 7.10), men 68.81 (SD = 7.44) and women 68.28 (SD = 6.76), respectively. The mean score of the ASDA was 51.09 (SD = 20.19). Cronbach's alpha of the ASDA was found to be high (0.94); and Spearman-Brown coefficient was 0.92. Women had a significantly higher mean total score on the ASDA. Old-aged individuals had a significantly higher mean ASDA total score than younger college students (M age = 25.77). The factor analysis of the ASDA items yielded three factors accounting for 67.88% of the total variance labeled (F1) fear of dead people and tombs; (F2) fear of lethal disease and postmortem events; and (F3) death fear. These factors were highly replicable with previous factors extracted from a middle-aged Kuwaiti sample. On the basis of the present results, there are the following three general conclusions: death anxiety is not significantly correlated with age; the sex-related differences on death anxiety are striking in the Iranian samples; and the ASDA has a highly replicable factor structure among two Iranian and Arab countries.

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Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

Dadfar

Lester

Bahrami

2016

Journal of Aging Research

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“…Women may also have different sociocultural experiences and cultural conditioning than men. For example, studies have found that female gender has been associated with higher death anxiety in adolescent populations and in cross-cultural research (Adbel-Khalek, 1991, 2005Cotter, 2003;Pierce, 2007;Singh Madnawat, & Singh Kachhawa, 2007). In a large sample of older individuals aged 61 to 80 years, elderly females were shown to have significantly higher death anxiety than males (Hickson, Housley, & Boyle, 1988).…”

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Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

Lehto¹,

Stein²

2009

Res Theory Nurs Pract

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This article identifies defining attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the concept of death anxiety using Rodgers (2000) evolutionary method of concept analysis. The literature on death anxiety was systematically reviewed for the years 1980-2007. Articles were summarized and coded. Inductive data analyses resulted in defining attributes (emotion, cognitive, experiential, developmental, sociocultural shaping, and source of motivation), antecedents (stressful environments and the experience of unpredictable circumstances, diagnosis of a life-threatening illness or the experience of a life-threatening event, and experiences with death and dying), and consequences (adaptive and maladaptive presentations). Results are important because little systematic inquiry of death anxiety exists in nursing literature.

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“…Likewise, in the study made by Akca and Kose, the death anxiety levels of women were found to be higher than men (Akca and Kose, 2008). Madnawat et al reported that the death anxiety increases with age in women (Madnawat and Kachhawa, 2007). Similiarly, in the study made by Tang, Wu and Yan (2002), they were found that the death anxiety scores of the female university students were higher than the male ones (Ayten, 2009;.…”

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Factors Affecting the Death Anxiety Levels of Relatives of Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment

Beydağ

2012

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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This descriptive study was performed to determine levels of the death anxiety levels of relatives of patients who being treated in a public hospital located in the Asian side of Istanbul and influencing factors. The sample was 106 patient relatives of patients from oncology or chemotherapy units of the hospital. Data were collected between May-June 2011 with the 15-item Death Anxiety Scale developed by Templer (1970) and adapted to Turkish by Senol (1989) and evaluated by number-percentage calculations, the Kruskal Wallis, Anova and t tests. Some 36.8% of the included group were aged 45 years and over, 57.5% were female and 65.1% were married. A statistically significant difference was found between the age groups, genders of the patient relatives, the period of cancer treatment regarding the death anxiety levels (p<0.05). The death anxiety levels of the patient relatives who were in the 17-39 age group, female and had a patient who was under treatment for less than 6 months were found to high as compared to others.

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Age, Gender, and Living Circumstances: Discriminating Older Adults on Death Anxiety

Cited by 44 publications

References 17 publications

Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

Factors Affecting the Death Anxiety Levels of Relatives of Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment

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