Loo R, Shea L
Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Death Stud. 1996 Nov-Dec;20(6):577-86. doi: 10.1080/07481189608252763.
The study examined the factor and cluster structures and internal consistency reliabilities of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale. Data were reanalyzed from an earlier study of 88 subjects who completed the scale under neutral conditions. The four subscales showed only weak recovery in the four-factor solution and gender loaded on the factor reflecting the Fear of Death of Others subscale. The two-factor solution showed that items reflecting the death and dying of "self" tended to load on the first factor whereas items concerning "others" loaded on the second factor. A Ward's cluster analysis yielded five meaningful clusters of items. Not surprisingly, the four subscales showed only moderate internal consistency reliabilities whereas the overall scale was acceptable. Comments are presented for improving the scale as well as for using the scale in applied settings.
该研究考察了科利特 - 莱斯特死亡恐惧量表的因素结构、聚类结构及内部一致性信度。数据重新分析自一项早期研究，该研究中有88名受试者在中性条件下完成了该量表。四个分量表在四因素解决方案中仅显示出微弱的恢复，且性别因素加载在反映他人死亡恐惧分量表的因素上。双因素解决方案表明，反映“自我”死亡和临终的项目倾向于加载在第一个因素上，而关于“他人”的项目加载在第二个因素上。沃德聚类分析产生了五个有意义的项目聚类。不出所料，四个分量表仅显示出中等程度的内部一致性信度，而总量表是可接受的。文中针对改进该量表以及在应用场景中使用该量表给出了评论。
