Improving Measurement of Death Anxiety
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 44 (3) , 975-980
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.44.3.975
Abstract
Two Likert versions of Templet's death anxiety scale were constructed. Three death-anxiety scales were administered to 320 college subjects along with the Marlowe-Crowne Scale and a self-perceived religiosity checklist. 281 subjects were retested on the death anxiety measures. A Likert version of the Templer scale increased the internal consistency of the scale and its discriminability. Females scored higher than males on the three death-anxiety measures for both testing periods. The results of the present study suggest that the Templer/McMordie scale offers advantages over Templer's original scale.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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