Two scales of death anxiety: Their reliability and correlation among Kuwaiti samples

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作者
AbdelKhalek, AM [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ALEXANDRIA,ALEXANDRIA,EGYPT
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10.2466/pms.1997.84.3.921
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Arabic versions of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the Thorson and Powell Revised Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 117 male and 157 female Kuwaiti undergraduates. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the two scales were, respectively, .79 and .77. Pearson correlations for scores on the two scales were .54, .67, and .64 for men, women and the combined group, respectively, so reliability and concurrent validity of the scales were adequate for the Kuwaiti sample.
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