title: Validation of a Portuguese form of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale.
abstract: To translate Templer's Death Anxiety Scale into the Brazilian Portuguese Escala de Ansiedade de Morte, linguistic validity was first established by back-translation and calculating bilingual split-half reliability coefficients. Even-numbered items achieved a minimally adequate .59, while the odd-numbered items attained a satisfactory .91. The internal consistency of the Escala (.77) matches that found for the original scale. The construct validity was tested by replicating the interactions of the English form with (1) the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, (2) the Purpose-in-Life Test, and (3) Levenson's measure of locus of control. The Escala performed as expected, save for some difficulty with the locus of control measure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Donovan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results