Sariçiçek Aydoğan Aybala, Gülseren Şeref, Öztürk Sarikaya Özyıl, Özen Çiğdem
Department of Psychiatry, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey.
Clinic of Psychiatry, Bursa State Hospital, Bursa, Turkey.
Noro Psikiyatr Ars. 2015 Dec;52(4):371-375. doi: 10.5152/npa.2015.8820. Epub 2015 Dec 1.
Although death anxiety is considered a universal phenomenon, attitudes toward death may vary across populations that differ in terms of religion and culture. Abdel-Khalek's Death Anxiety Scale (ASDA) was developed on the basis of the rationale that there are specific concepts related to death and after death in Muslim populations. This study aims to translate and adapt ASDA in the Turkish population, examine its validity and reliability, and to compare its psychometric properties with the widely used Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS).
A total of 220 medical students were included in the study. The Turkish version of ASDA, DAS, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used for data collection.
Cronbach's alpha coefficients were .86 for ASDA and .66 for DAS. Analysis by principal components with varimax rotation produced five factors for ASDA that explained 65.6% of total variance. ASDA and DAS were highly correlated with each other (r=.68, p<.001).
The results of this study indicate that the Turkish version of Abdel-Khalek's Death Anxiety Scale is a reliable and valid instrument. The Turkish version of ASDA revealed better psychometric properties than DAS. This finding may reflect specific cultural and religious attitudes toward death or may result from more comprehensible language use in ASDA.
尽管死亡焦虑被认为是一种普遍现象，但不同宗教和文化背景的人群对死亡的态度可能存在差异。阿卜杜勒 - 哈莱克死亡焦虑量表（ASDA）是基于穆斯林群体中存在与死亡及死后相关特定概念的理论基础而编制的。本研究旨在将ASDA翻译并改编用于土耳其人群，检验其效度和信度，并将其心理测量特性与广泛使用的坦普勒死亡焦虑量表（DAS）进行比较。
本研究共纳入220名医学生。使用ASDA土耳其语版、DAS以及医院焦虑抑郁量表进行数据收集。
ASDA的克朗巴赫α系数为0.86，DAS的为0.66。采用主成分分析法和方差最大化旋转对ASDA进行分析，得到五个因子，解释了总方差的65.6%。ASDA与DAS高度相关（r = 0.68，p < 0.001）。
本研究结果表明，阿卜杜勒 - 哈莱克死亡焦虑量表土耳其语版是一种可靠且有效的工具。ASDA土耳其语版显示出比DAS更好的心理测量特性。这一发现可能反映了对死亡的特定文化和宗教态度，也可能是由于ASDA使用了更易懂的语言所致。
