Two Scales of Death Anxiety: Their Reliability and Correlation among Kuwaiti Samples
Abstract
Arabic versions of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the Thorson and Powell Revised Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 117 male and 157 female Kuwaiti undergraduates. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the two scales were, respectively, .79 and .77. Pearson correlations for scores on the two scales were .54, .67, and .64 for men, women and the combined group, respectively, so reliability and concurrent validity of the scales were adequate for the Kuwaiti sample.
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Templer's Death Anxiety Scale has been criticized for its forced choice response format, internal consistency, discriminant power, and factorial validity.
“yet its forced choice response format, internal consistency, discriminant power, and factorial validity have been criticized”
From Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct (2014) · cites this paper as Abdel-Khalek, 1997
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“…Scale is extensively used as a reliable and valid measure of death anxiety (Abdel-Khalek, 2004; Royal & Elahi, 2011), yet its forced choice response format, internal consistency, discriminant power, and factorial validity have been criticized (Abdel-Khalek, 1997; Durlak, 1982; McMordie, 1979).”
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- Authors
- Abdel-Khalek, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Alexandria University, Egypt and Kuwait University
- Venue
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 921-922
- ISSN
- 0031-5125 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-688X
- OpenAlex
- W2042571722
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Perceptual and Motor Skills (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Keywords
- fear of death, Templer Death Anxiety Scale, Arabic translation, scale reliability, concurrent validity, gender differences
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Attitude to Death, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Developing Countries, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Kuwait, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Students, Reproducibility of Results
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