Thorson J A, Powell F C, Samuel V T
Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha 68182, USA.
Psychol Rep. 1998 Oct;83(2):623-6. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.2.623.
Samples of 293 students of European heritage and 102 students of African heritage completed the Revised Death Anxiety Scale. Euro-Americans were more concerned with the uncertainty associated with death and with the loss of being, while African Americans expressed greater anxiety over the pain associated with dying, but there was no significant mean difference in total scores for the groups.
293名欧洲裔学生和102名非洲裔学生的样本完成了修订后的死亡焦虑量表。欧美裔更关注与死亡相关的不确定性以及存在的丧失,而非洲裔美国人对与死亡相关的痛苦表现出更大的焦虑,但两组的总分没有显著的平均差异。