The reliability and validity of the Death Obsession Scale among English university and adult samples
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The reliability and concurrent validity of the 15-item Death Obsession Scale [Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (1998a). The structure and measurement of death obsession. Personality and Individual Dierences, 24, 159±165] is examined among 174 English university students (83 men, 91 women) and 105 English adults (42 men, 63 women). Consistent with previous ®ndings when using the Death Obsession Scale, the scale yields a three factor structure (`death rumination', `death dominance' and `death idea repetition'), demonstrates adequate reliability statistics, and displays concurrent validity with expected signi®cant positive correlations with measures of death anxiety, death depression, obsessional symptoms, anxiety, depression and neuroticism. These ®ndings suggest con®dence in the use of the Death Obsession Scale in empirical studies surrounding death distress among English speaking samples. # 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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