Death anxiety and death obsession in Spanish students.
This study examined the dimensional structure of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and Abdel-Khalek's Death Obsession Scale. The responses of 289 Spanish students to the Spanish forms of both scales were evaluated by means of a principal components analysis with varimax rotation. Three significant factors were identified: Death Obsession, Cognitive-Affective, and Death Anxiety. The distribution of the factor loadings for the items of both scales on Factors 1 and 3 supported the discriminant validity of the constructs specific to each of the scales, while Factor 2 showed a common component in both scales characterized by cognitive and affective aspects in relation to the idea of death.
Tomás-Sábado
Joaquín
J
Escola Universitària d'Infermeria Gimbernat, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. joaquin.tomas@cesc.es
Gómez-Benito
Juana
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires