Self-Report and Fantasy Correlates of Death Concern
- 1 August 1975
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 37 (1) , 147-158
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1975.37.1.147
Abstract
The Death Concern Scale (Dickstein, 1972) was administered to 185 college females and three groups of high (n = 24), middle (n = 25), and low (n = 24) death-concern Ss were selected. These groups were administered the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale, the Pearson Novelty-experiencing Scale, the Mosher Forced-choice Guilt Inventory, and the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values. In addition, Ss took the TAT which was scored for death references, prospective span, retrospective span, themes of illicit sexuality, and themes of punishment. Death concern was positively related to internal sensation novelty-seeking, retrospective span, death references, and themes of illicit sexuality, and negatively related to the Theoretical value and social desirability. These results are interpreted as providing further support for the construct validity of the scale.Keywords
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