Death obsession in Arabic and Western countries.
The current investigation compared a measure of death obsession among 1,853 volunteer undergraduates from four Arab countries (Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Syria) with 791 from three Western countries, i.e., Britain, Spain, and the USA. Comparable Arabic, Spanish, and English versions of the Death Obsession Scale were used. The mean scores on death obsession for the Arabic participants were higher than those of their Western counterparts for both men and women.
Abdel-Khalek
Ahmed M
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kaifan, Kuwait. ahmedkuniv@hotmail.com
D000328:Adult; D018912:Arabs / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019366:Western World