Love of Life and Death Distress

Two Separate Factors

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13628352
AutoresAhmed M Abdel-Khalek (0000-0001-9463-1388, Kuwait University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen55
Número4
Páginas267-278
Fecha de publicación2007-09-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.55.4.b
PMID18027642
OpenAlexW1978964029
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas33

The objectives of the current investigation were threefold: a) to explore the gender differences on love of life (a new construct in the well-being domain) and death distress (death anxiety, death depression, and death obsession); b) to explore the relationship between the scales of these constructs; and c) to examine the factorial structure of these scales. The sample was 245 volunteer Kuwaiti college students (53.5% women). Their mean age was 21.9 (SD = 2.3). They responded to the Love of Life Scale, the Death Anxiety Scale, the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety, the Death Depression Scale-Revised, and the Death Obsession Scale. Gender differences on love of life were not significant. However, women had significantly higher mean scores for the four death distress scales than did their male counterparts. All the correlations between love of life and the death distress scales were not significant except one pertaining to love of life and death depression (negative) in women. Two oblique factors were extracted: death distress and love of life. It was concluded that these constructs represent two distinct and independent factors. Counselors and clinicians dealing with death distress would find that it is not associated with love of life

Anxiety · Death anxiety · Depression (economics · Distress · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology