Further Study of the Validity of the Death Concern Scale

Klug, Leo; Boss, Marvin W.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1977.40.3.907

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“…Kalish (1963), for example, factor analyzed 75 different items and found them to cluster into 20 different factors. Less ambitious, perhaps, others have done factor analytic procedures on particular scales and have found a wide variety of concepts that might make up meanings of death (Conte, Weiner, & Plutchik, 1982; Hayslip &Walling, 1986;Hoelter, 1979;Klug & Boss, 1976Nelson &Nelson, 1975;Pandey, 1975; Thorson & Powell, 1984). Durlak and Kass (1981) administered 15 death anxiety scales to a sample of 350 college students.…”

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Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death

1988

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The objectives of this study were: (1) to test hypotheses that women would have higher death anxiety than men and that older persons would have lower death anxiety than younger people; and (2) to probe for meanings of death among a large, heterogeneous sample. A group of 599 adolescents and adults completed a death anxiety scale; factor analysis of the resultant data revealed seven orthogonal factors. Both hypotheses were supported at acceptable levels of significance. Item analysis revealed additional information on meanings of death: Older respondents indicated a concern over the existence of an afterlife and over loss of personal control; women expressed more fear of pain and bodily decomposition. The strongest finding was variation in death anxiety by age, which confirms Butler's contention that the life review helps the aged to resolve conflicts and relieve anxiety.

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“…It consists of 15 self-statements with a forced-choice response format counterbalanced for true and false responses. Good reliability and validity data for the scale has been published by Templer (1 970,197 l), Templer and Ruff (197 I) and Klug and Boss (1977).…”

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Trait anxiety and the cognitive representation of significant life events: Some correlates of situation-specific traits

Raggatt

1989

Australian Psychologist

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This paper describes an exploratory investigation of Endler's person X situation model of trait anxiety using multidimensional scaling and related methods. The aim was to discover whether individual differences in "situation-specific" trait anxiety were related to differences in the way individuals cognitively represent significant life events. Thirty-four respondents provided brief descriptions of important personal experiences. These events were used as items in a pair-wise matching task to generate individual multidimensional scaling (MDS) solutions, and descriptive constructs for event similarity and dissimilarity. The dimensions and descriptors emerging from these analyses were correlated with five dimensions of trait anxiety: interpersonal, physical danger, ambiguous/ novel, daily routines, and death. The findings provided some limited evidence for concordance between situation-specific traits and cognitive organisation. The ambiguous and physical danger scales were associated with affective organisation. Daily routines anxiety was associated with the salience of perceived control. Death anxiety was associated with temporal organisation. However, the amounts of explained variance in these relationships were modest, and there was evidence of confounds, particularly between ambiguous trait anxiety and the physical danger and interpersonal scales. It is suggested that refinement of the methods used here could provide an avenue for further exploring relationships between person-situation traits and information processing activities.

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Temperament Types: Midlife Death Concerns, Demographics, and Intensity of Crisis

Waskel

1995

The Journal of Psychology

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Individuals (N = 331) between the ages 35 and 55 completed a death concern scale and a temperament type sorter and provided information relative to the intensity of and their ability to identify a midlife crisis event. Participants were classified within temperament types by gender, education level, crisis intensity, and ability to identify the crisis event. Five temperament types (ESTJ [extrovert, sensing, thinking, judging], ESFJ [extrovert, sensing, feeling, judging], ISFJ [introvert, sensing, feeling, judging], ISTJ [introvert, sensing, thinking, judging], and ENFP [extrovert, intuitive, feeling, perceiving]) significantly correlated with thinking about and anxiety about death. Gender and education level, as well as crisis intensity, also correlated significantly with death concerns. Temperament type characteristics that may have relevancy to the findings are discussed.

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Further Study of the Validity of the Death Concern Scale

Cited by 9 publications

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Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death

Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death

Trait anxiety and the cognitive representation of significant life events: Some correlates of situation-specific traits

Temperament Types: Midlife Death Concerns, Demographics, and Intensity of Crisis

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