Attitude toward euthanasia scale: psychometric properties and relations with religious orientation, personality, and life satisfaction.
End-of-life decisions (ELDs) represent a controversial subject, with ethical dilemmas and empirical ambiguities that stand at the intersection of ethics and medicine. In a non-Western population, we examined individual differences in perceiving ELDs that end the life of a patient as acceptable and found that an attitude toward euthanasia (ATE) scale consists of 2 factors representing voluntary and nonvoluntary euthanasia. Also, acceptance of ELDs that end the life of a patient negatively correlated with life satisfaction, honesty-humility, conscientiousness, and intrinsic and extrinsic personal motivation toward religion. These findings provided additional construct validity of the ATE scale.
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
Naser
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Aghababaei
Jason Adam
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Wasserman
D005065:Euthanasia / Q000941:ethics; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006801:Humans; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics; D012067:Religion
attitude toward euthanasia scale; end-of-life decisions; individual differences; personality; religiosity