The Relationship of Sex-Role Orientation to Death Anxiety in Middle-Aged Males

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629676
AutoresAnn M Downey (Northeastern University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen14
Número4
Páginas355-367
Fecha de publicación1984-06-01
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)
DOI10.2190/0q45-fwq2-7yp0-j6m3
OpenAlexW2053219930
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

The purpose of this study was to determine how sex-role orientation was related to death anxiety among a group of middle-aged males. A nonprobability sample of 237 male volunteers between the ages of forty and fifty-nine, of whom 88.7 percent were engaged in professional occupations, completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) and Boyar's Fear of Death Scale (FODS). In addition, “death experience” was measured by three items and was employed as a control variable in determining the relationship between sex-role orientation and death anxiety. Results of this investigation indicated that “death experience” or the amount of contact the male has had with death was not related to death anxiety. Additionally, those middle-aged males with a traditional male sex-role orientation (high masculinity/low femininity) did not exhibit higher death anxiety scores than those males with an androgynous orientation (high masculinity/high femininity) as was predicted. Thus, in this sample of professional middle-aged males, the men with a traditional sex-role orientation did not differ from those males who were androgynous with respect to death anxiety levels

Anxiety · Death anxiety · Developmental psychology · Fear of death · Femininity · Masculinity · Orientation (vector space · Psychiatry · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demography · Media Influence and Health · Psychology