Death Anxiety Among University Students in Northern Ireland and Canada |
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| Authors: | Richard Lonetto G. William Mercer Stephen Fleming Brendan Bunting Mark Clare |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Guelph, Canada;2. New University of Ulster, Northern Ireland;3. and York University, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Male and female university students in Northern Ireland (n = 315) and Canada (n = 255) completed Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS). Results of a discriminant function analysis indicated that Canadian students showed more concern about being afraid to die and thoughts of death, while students from the North of Ireland were more concerned about getting cancer, the shortness of life, and the viewing of a corpse. However, total DAS scores failed to show significance between group differences (p >.10). Correlations between DAS and MAS total scores were r =.34 for Northern Ireland and r =.31 for Canadian students. |
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