Attitudes Toward Physician Assisted Suicide

Poland and the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629503
AutoresGeorge Domino (The University of Arizona, Tucson, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen46
Número2
Páginas105-115
Fecha de publicación2003-03-01
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/qfxy-q06a-mt87-4ygm
PMID15080104
OpenAlexW2000346141
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

A scale to measure attitudes toward physician assisted suicide was administered to a sample (N=246) of Polish citizens and a sample (N=246) of U.S. citizens equated on gender, marital status, religion, and socioeconomic level. In both samples the reliability was substantial (Cronbach's alphas of .93 and .89), and the factor structure identical (one major factor). Significant ethnic differences were found for 10 of the 12 scale items, but no differences related to demographic variables. The obtained differences appear to parallel a conservative-liberal dimension, though this will need to be assessed in future studies

Cronbach's alpha · Dimension (graph theory · Ethnic group · Geography · Marital status · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Sample (material · Scale (ratio · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies