Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 4.3.2Warning: package 'kableExtra' was built under R version 4.3.218 Death Anxiety
Cluster: Motivational
18.1 Measure
The death anxiety measure used is the Existential Death Anxiety Scale by Jong & Halberstadt (2016). The scale can be found here
Modifications
As with other scales the response anchors and labels were altered to correspond to our standard 7-point Likert scale for agreement. The question text was also slightly altered to reflect this.
18.2 Implementation
Question wording;
Participants read the following text:
Please read each of the following statements carefully and rate how strongly you agree or disagree. There are no right or wrong answers and your responses remain anonymous.
Items
| Qlabel | question |
|---|---|
| da_01 | The thought of my own death frightens me. |
| da_02 | I am troubled by the fact that someday I will no longer be alive. |
| da_03 | The finality of death is frightening to me. |
| da_04 | My mortality troubles me. |
| da_05 | Thinking about being dead fills me with dread. |
| da_06 | It upsets me to think that someday I will no longer be in this world. |
| da_07 | The idea of never experiencing the world again after I die frightens me. |
| da_08 | I am scared that death will be the end of “me”. |
| da_09 | The loss of my consciousness in death scares me. |
| da_10 | I am scared that death will be the end of my “self”. |
| da_11 | I am scared that death will extinguish me as a person. |
| da_12 | Never feeling anything again after I die upsets me. |
Coding
This questionnaire used our standard response scale for agreement.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| strongly disagree | moderately disagree | slightly disagree | neither agree nor disagree | slightly agree | moderately agree | strongly agree |
No items are reverse coded
Scoring
The following variables were defined from this measure:
| Variable Name | Variable Label | Description | Variable Type | Source (Section) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Anxiety | death_anxiety | Death anxiety score | numeric | Death Anxiety | mean da_01: da_12 |