Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons
Joint Authors
Dadfar, Mahboubeh
Lester, David
Bahrami, Fazel
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-10-27
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Abstract EN
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.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Dadfar, Mahboubeh& Lester, David& Bahrami, Fazel. 2016. Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons. Journal of Aging Research،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-7.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Dadfar, Mahboubeh…[et al.]. Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons. Journal of Aging Research No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Dadfar, Mahboubeh& Lester, David& Bahrami, Fazel. Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons. Journal of Aging Research. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1107418
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1107418