PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES OF DEATH ANXIETY AMONG CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
Abstract
This study aims to explore various psychosocial correlates associated with how Chinese react to death and dying. A total of 282 Chinese college students participated in this study. They completed the Death Anxiety Scale, the Revised Death Anxiety Scale, and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale, as well as measures on self-efficacy and health locus of control. Results showed that younger as compared with older participants and women as compared with men tended to be more death anxious. Those with low levels of self-efficacy and external health control orientations were more likely to report a high level of death anxiety. Only a weak association was found between internal health locus of control and fear of conscious death. Limitations of the study were also discussed.
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Meaning in life is significantly and negatively correlated with death anxiety in Chinese college students.
“Tang et al. found meaning in life to be significantly and negatively correlated with death anxiety in Chinese college students”
From Relationship between meaning in life and death anxiety in the elderly: self-esteem as a mediator (2019) · cites this paper as [20]
The Templer Death Anxiety Scale was translated into Chinese and back-translated to ensure accurate translation and demonstrated good reliability and validity.
“The Templer Death Anxiety Scale was translated into Chinese and back-translated from Chinese to English to ensure accurate translation [20]; the translated measure demonstrated good reliability and validity”
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- Authors
- Tang, C. S.-K., Wu, A. M. S., & W.Yan, E. C.
- Affiliations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Venue
- Death Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 491-499
- ISSN
- 0748-1187 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-7683
- OpenAlex
- W1971158107
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Death Studies (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- fear of death, Chinese university students, self-efficacy, health locus of control, gender differences, age differences, death and dying, psychosocial correlates
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Attitude to Death, China, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Self Concept, Students, Universities
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