Adolescent-Parent Death Attitude Resemblance in Kuwaiti and Sudanese Families

Bibliographic Data

ID13630489
AuthorsAbdelwahid Awadalla (Kuwait University, corresponding author), Ghenaim Al‐Fayez (Kuwait University), Ghenaim Al-Fayez (Kuwait University), Hiroko Arikawa (Forest Institute of Professional Psychology Springfield, Missouri), Donald I Templer (California School of Professional Psychology–Fresno at Alliant International University)
Year2003
Volume46
Issue4
Pages353-359
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/wg31-n9dy-9aj2-nvvj
OpenAlexW2003392490
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

The present study determined the family resemblance in death anxiety and death depression in Kuwait and in the Sudan. There were moderate correlations between Death Anxiety Scale (Templer, 1970) and Death Depression Scale (Templer, Lavoie, Chalgujian, & Thomas-Dobson, 1990) scores of adolescents and their parents and between the scores of the mothers and fathers. The correlations tended to be higher in death depression than in death anxiety, and it was speculated that such may not have been found if the more recently constructed Death Depression Scale-Revised (Templer et al., 2002) had been used. The present findings mesh with family resemblance death attitude research in the United States and in the Philippines in indicating a transmission of death attitude in the family context. Differences in the pattern of correlations were interpreted in terms of cultural differences

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