Hoogstraten J, Koele P, van der Laan J
Faculty of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Dec;87(3 Pt 2):1259-64. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.3f.1259.
The aim of the present study was twofold, to present and analyse a Dutch version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and to explore further the scale's factor structure. Subjects were 179 Dutch freshmen in psychology who filled out the scale during a group test-session. Mean scale scores, standard deviations, and internal consistency were comparable to data reported in earlier studies. A principal components analysis identified five factors with eigenvalues larger than one. The first factor appeared to be an underlying primary dimension on which all items except Item 10 loaded substantially. It is suggested to change the response format form a dichotomous to a 5-point scale and to accept the Dutch version of the Death Anxiety Scale as a reliable measure of death anxiety.
本研究的目的有两个，一是呈现并分析荷兰语版的坦普勒死亡焦虑量表，二是进一步探究该量表的因子结构。研究对象为179名荷兰心理学专业大一新生，他们在一次团体测试中填写了该量表。量表的平均得分、标准差和内部一致性与早期研究报告的数据相当。主成分分析确定了五个特征值大于1的因子。第一个因子似乎是一个潜在的主要维度，除第10项外，所有项目在该维度上的载荷都很高。建议将回答格式从二分法改为5点量表，并接受荷兰语版的死亡焦虑量表作为死亡焦虑的可靠测量工具。
