TY - JOUR
AU - Reker, Gary T.
AB - Four orthogonal factors were identified by principal component factor analysis: Fear of Death/Dying, Approach-Oriented Death Acceptance, Escape-Oriented Death Acceptance, and Neutral Death Acceptance. Theta estimates of the internal consistency of the factor scales ranged from fair (.60) to good (.89). An elderly sample (n = 50) showed less fear of death and more acceptance (all three kinds of acceptance) than the middle age (n = 50) and the young (n = 50) samples. As predicted, Fear of Death/Dying was negatively related to happiness, but positively related to hopelessness, whereas Escape-Oriented Death Acceptance was positively related to hopelessness, thus providing some evidence of concurrent validity of the DAP.
TI - Death Attitudes across the Life-Span: The Development and Validation of the Death Attitude Profile (DAP)
JF - OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
DO - 10.2190/0DQB-7Q1E-2BER-H6YC
DA - 1988-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/death-attitudes-across-the-life-span-the-development-and-validation-of-XLUKvJ87Rw
SP - 113
EP - 128
VL - 18
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -