title: The relationship of death anxiety with age and psychosocial maturity.
abstract: For this study, 194 respondents completed a biographical data sheet, the Templer (1970) Death Anxiety Scale and the Constantinople (1973) Inventory of Psychosocial Development to help assess the relationship among death anxiety, age, and psychosocial maturity. Findings showed that psychosocial maturity was a better predictor of death anxiety than age was. However, both variables were significantly negatively correlated with death anxiety, revealing that as psychosocial maturity and age increase, death anxiety decreases.
authors.affiliation: California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno 93705, USA.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brems
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012016:Reference Values; D012917:Social Adjustment