Death obsession in Kuwaiti and American college students.
Two samples of Kuwaiti (n = 460) and American (n = 273) male and female undergraduates responded to the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) in Arabic and English, respectively. Cronbach's alpha reliability statistics were .96 and .91, respectively, denoting high internal consistency. In the same vein, all t...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 541 - 554 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2003
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106734452&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106734452 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07481187 DEA jtl: Death Studies issn: 07481187 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2003 vid: 27 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 106734452 106734452 2004074694 10.1080/07481180302881 NLM12814132 106734452 ppf: 541 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Death obsession in Kuwaiti and American college students. aug: au: Abdel-Khalek AM Lester D affil: Dept of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, PO Box 68168 Kaifan, Code No: 71962, Kuwait; jss@kuc0lkuniv.edu.kw sug: subj: Attitude to Death Psychometrics Students, College Psychosocial Factors Adult Coefficient alpha Data Analysis Software Data Analysis, Statistical Descriptive Statistics Female Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Kuwait Male Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Research Instruments Scales T-Tests Test-Retest Reliability United States Validation Studies Funding Source Human Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Two samples of Kuwaiti (n = 460) and American (n = 273) male and female undergraduates responded to the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) in Arabic and English, respectively. Cronbach's alpha reliability statistics were .96 and .91, respectively, denoting high internal consistency. In the same vein, all the item-remainder correlations in both samples were significant denoting item validity and content validity. A general factor of death obsession was disclosed in the Kuwaiti sample, whereas two salient factors (death rumination, and death dominance and repetition) were extracted in the American sample. Gender-related differences were significant in the Kuwaiti sample, that is, females attained higher mean score than their male counterparts, whereas there were no significant gender differences in the American sample. Kuwaiti students attained significantly higher mean DOS score than their American counterparts in the total and all the individual items of the DOS. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|