Abdel-Khalek A M
Alexandria University, Egypt.
Death Stud. 1998 Dec;22(8):763-72. doi: 10.1080/074811898201254.
The author investigated the reliability and concurrent validity of a Likert-type single-item test asking for a self-rating of death anxiety in two Arabic countries: Egypt and Kuwait. A total of 1,439 participants were divided into 9 male and female subsamples and were tested by a single item of death anxiety, along with three psychometric multi-item instruments (i.e., Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, Thorson and Powell's Revised Death Anxiety Scale, and the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety). The single- and multi-item scales had high reliabilities. All of the thirteen correlations between the single-item and the multi-item scales of death anxiety among men and women were statistically significant (p less than .001) and positive. They ranged from .30 to .66, with a median of .51. It was concluded that single-item assessment can be reliable across time (test-retest = .82) and that it correlates moderately with multi-item instruments.
作者在埃及和科威特这两个阿拉伯国家，对一项要求自我评定死亡焦虑的李克特式单项测试的信度和同时效度进行了调查。总共1439名参与者被分成9个男性和女性子样本，并通过一项死亡焦虑单项测试以及三项心理测量多项量表（即坦普勒死亡焦虑量表、索尔森和鲍威尔修订版死亡焦虑量表以及阿拉伯语死亡焦虑量表）进行测试。单项和多项量表都具有较高的信度。男性和女性中，死亡焦虑单项量表与多项量表之间的13种相关性均具有统计学意义（p小于0.001）且为正相关。相关性范围从0.30至0.66，中位数为0.51。研究得出结论，单项评估在不同时间具有可靠性（重测信度=0.82），并且与多项量表具有中等程度的相关性。
