Death Anxiety Scale (Templer)
Psychology: Mental HealthReliability: alpha 0.763 sample items
About this scale
A 15-item True/False measure of death anxiety — fear and apprehension regarding death. Used in clinical, palliative-care, and existential research.
Sample item(s)
“I am very much afraid to die”
“The thought of death seldom enters my mind (reverse)”
“I dread to think about having to have an operation”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.76. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Templer, D. I. (1970): The construction and validation of a death anxiety scale. Journal of General Psychology, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 165–177.
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