Death anxiety and death depression in Spanish nurses.
This study examined the dimensional structure of Tomás-Sábado and Gómez-Benito's Death Anxiety Inventory and Templer, et al.'s Death Depression Scale-Revised. The responses of 244 Spanish nurses to the Spanish forms of both scales were evaluated by means of a principal axis factor analysis with direct Oblimin rotation. Five significant factors were identified: Internally Generated Death Anxiety, Death Depression, Externally Generated Death Anxiety, Death Threat, and Death Sadness, accounting for 51.6% of the variance. The distribution of the factor loadings for the items of both scales on the five factors supported the discriminant validity of the constructs specific to each of the scales and justified their use in evaluating death anxiety and death depression independently.
Tomás-Sábado
Joaquín
J
Escola Universitària d'Infermeria Gimbernat, Vial Interpolar del Valles s.n., 08190 Sant Cugat del Valles, Barcelona, Spain. joaquin.tomas@cesc.es
Gómez-Benito
Juana
J
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013030:Spain