title: Death anxiety in institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly people in Spain.
abstract: To know the level of death anxiety using the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) (1970) (Ramos's Spanish adaptation, 1982)) we chose subjects older than 65 years (N = 227) to study, on one hand, the existing relation between cognitive-affective reactions toward death and the perception of the passing of time and, on the other, a group of variables which include the place of residence, age, gender, life reflection, health disorders, psychological problems, religious aspects, and socio-demographics features. To undertake this, a questionnaire was administered in which the participants answered according to their degree of agreement to several alternatives. The data indicates, by means of an analysis of variance, significant differences between these variables and death anxiety, with the exception of the religious aspects and civil state.
authors.affiliation: The Seneca Gerontological Centre of Investigation, Córdoba, Spain. rportal@ugr.es
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Portal Moreno
authors.forename: Emilia I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: de la Fuente Solana
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aleixandre Rico
authors.forename: Luis Manuel
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lozano Fernández
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis