Dadfar Mahboubeh, Abdel-Khalek Ahmed M, Lester David, Atef Vahid Mohammad Kazem
School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, International Campus, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2017;2017:7468217. doi: 10.1155/2017/7468217. Epub 2017 Jun 18.
The aim of this study was to describe the psychometric properties of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA). The original scale was first translated into Farsi by language experts using the back translation procedure and then administered to a total of 252 Iranian college students and 52 psychiatric outpatients from psychiatric and psychological clinics. The one-week test-retest reliability of the Farsi version in a sample of college students was 0.78, indicating good temporal stability and corroborating the trait-like nature of scores. Cronbach's was 0.90 for the college students and 0.92 for the psychiatric outpatients, indicating high internal consistency. Scale scores correlated 0.46 with Death Obsession Scale scores, 0.56 with Death Depression Scale scores, 0.41 with Death Anxiety Scale scores, and 0.40 with Wish to be Dead Scale scores, indicating good construct and criterion-related validity. A principal component analysis with a Varimax rotation yielded four factors in the sample of Iranian college students, indicating a lack of homogeneity in the content of the scale. Male students obtained a significant higher mean score than did females. It was concluded that the Farsi ASDA had good internal consistency, temporal stability, criterion-related validity, and a factor structure reflecting important features of death anxiety. In general, the Farsi ASDA could be recommended for use in research on death anxiety among Iranian college students and psychiatric outpatients.
本研究旨在描述阿拉伯语死亡焦虑量表（ASDA）波斯语版的心理测量特性。最初，语言专家采用回译程序将原始量表翻译成波斯语，然后对来自精神科和心理诊所的252名伊朗大学生和52名精神科门诊患者进行施测。波斯语版在大学生样本中的一周重测信度为0.78，表明具有良好的时间稳定性，并证实了分数的特质性。大学生的克朗巴哈系数为0.90，精神科门诊患者为0.92，表明内部一致性较高。量表分数与死亡困扰量表分数的相关性为0.46，与死亡抑郁量表分数的相关性为0.56，与死亡焦虑量表分数的相关性为0.41，与想死量表分数的相关性为0.40，表明具有良好的结构效度和效标关联效度。在伊朗大学生样本中进行的主成分分析和方差最大化旋转产生了四个因素，表明量表内容缺乏同质性。男学生的平均得分显著高于女学生。研究得出结论，波斯语ASDA具有良好的内部一致性、时间稳定性、效标关联效度和反映死亡焦虑重要特征的因素结构。总体而言，波斯语ASDA可推荐用于伊朗大学生和精神科门诊患者死亡焦虑的研究。
