Rosemary A Robbins

Biographic Data

ID6514614
NAMERosemary A Robbins
GIVEN NAMESRosemary A
FAMILY NAMERobbins
SIGNATUREROBBINS R A
AFFILIATIONSHarrisburg University of Science and Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
H-INDEX1

  • Death competency

    Rosemary A RobbinsARTICLEDeath Studies1992

    Three groups of hospice volunteers, trainees (N = 52), medium-term (2 to 42 months, N = 94), long-term (48 months or more, N = 96), and nonhospice and nonpatient care controls (N = 78) completed Bugen's Coping with Death Scale, the Templer/McMordie Death Anxiety Scale, and a new self-efficacy scale related to hospice and the ability to deal with death in general. The groups did not differ on the Death Anxiety Scale. However, on the Coping with De…

  • Bugen's Coping with Death Scale

    Open AccessRosemary A RobbinsARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying1991

    Bugen's Coping with Death Scale, originally found to reflect gains in a death and dying seminar, was found in the present study to be internally consistent and stable on retest. It was negatively associated with the Templer and Collett-Lester scales, providing some convergent validation. It was not associated with Social Desirability but was associated with general anxiety; thus, discriminant validity was mixed. Individuals who had written wills,…

  • Signing an organ donor card

    Rosemary A RobbinsARTICLEDeath Studies1990Cited by: 4References: 5

    Personality factors related to organ donor card signing were explored in a sample of 94 students. Nondonors scored higher on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, Collett-Lester Fear of Death of Self, Death of Others, and Dying of Self subscales, and a scale of physical anxiety. Donors scored higher on a Likert scale reflecting acceptance of dying and, not surprisingly, on self-efficacy to sign an organ donor card. When regrouped on the basis of whether…

  • Gender and sex-role stereotypes in scales of death concern

    Rosemary A RobbinsARTICLEDeath Studies1989References: 2

    A review of the literature reveals that gender is one of the variables most consistently related to death anxiety. Consistent with these findings, females in the present study reported significantly more death anxiety on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale than did males. In addition, females expressed greater Fear of Death of Others and Fear of Dying of Self on the Collett-Lester Scale. Given intercorrelations, multiple regression analyses were conduc…

  • Objective and Subjective Factors in Estimating Life Expectancy

    Open AccessRosemary A RobbinsARTICLEPsychological Reports1988

    This study was undertaken to elaborate on how people estimate their personal life spans. Undergraduates (49 women and 27 men) reported on their expected personal life spans, rough estimates of life spans in their families, and actual ages at death of family members, and then took Templer's 1970 Death Anxiety Scale. Correlational analyses indicated that the subjective factor of “rough” estimate of family life span was most strongly correlated with…

  • Subjective Life Expectancy as a Correlate of Family Life Expectancy

    Open AccessRosemary A RobbinsARTICLEPsychological Reports1988

    Subjects were 18 female undergraduates who participated in this study as part of a Life Span Development Course. Ages ranged from 20 to 43 yr. (mean age 29.8 yr. SD: 8.6, Mdn: 27.5 yr.). A questionnaire w3s administered to the subjects asking them for (a) subjective estimates of their projected life span or expectancy, (b) subjective estimates of the 'rough' length of life in their family, and (c) specific ages at death of great-grandparents, gra…