Reliability and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Version of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in an Iranian Middle-Aged Sample | Zendy

Mahboubeh Dadfar | Zendy; Fazel Bahrami | Zendy

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Reliability and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Version of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in an Iranian Middle-Aged Sample

Author(s) -

Mahboubeh Dadfar,

Fazel Bahrami

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1155/2016/9457041

Subject(s) - guttman scale , cronbach's alpha , death anxiety , psychology , arabic , clinical psychology , anxiety , fear of death , reliability (semiconductor) , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , psychiatry , psychometrics , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics

The present study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) in an Iranian middle-aged sample. A sample of 55 volunteer Iranian persons took part in the study. Cronbach's alpha of the ASDA was found to be high (0.91) and Spearman-Brown and Guttman Split-Half coefficients were 0.86. The factor analysis of the ASDA items yielded five factors accounting for 72.49% of the total variance and labeled (F1) fear of death and fear of dead people; (F2) fear of postmortem events and fear of tombs; (F3) fear of lethal disease; (F4) preoccupation with after death, and death fear in sleep; and (F5) fear of deprivation of own ones. The ASDA has a good validity and reliability, and it can be used in clinical, educational, and research settings.

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