Anxiety and death anxiety in Egyptian and Spanish nursing students.
Author: Abdel Khalek AM, Tomás Sábado J.
Source:
Death studies, 29(2), 157-169.
Two samples of female nursing undergraduates from Egypt (n = 132) and Spain (n =
126) responded to the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety, the Spanish Death Anxiety
Inventory, the Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, the Kuwait University Anxiety
Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Subscale. Each sample answered
the scales in their native language. Alpha reliabilities of the total score
scales ranged from 0.65 to 0.91 (Egyptian sample) and between 0.71 and 0.90
(Spanish sample). The Spanish respondents attained significantly lower mean
scores than the Egyptian sample in all the 5 scales. All the intercorrelations
between these scales were statistically significant, and yielded two factors:
Death Anxiety and General Anxiety in both countries. The correlations between
these factors were significant, positive, and moderate, that is, 0.57 and 0.50 in
the Egyptian and Spanish samples, respectively. The general conclusion is that
Death Anxiety and General Anxiety are 2 different, but correlated factors.