DEATH ANXIETY IN CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL GROUPS

ABSTRACT

The Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) was administered, individually, to 7 groups (N = 765) of Egyptian normal participants (non-clinical), anxiety disorder patients, and patients suffering from schizophrenia (males and females), and addicts (males only). They were generally matched as groups according to age, occupation, and education. The female and male anxiety disorder patients means were, respectively, significantly higher than the means of the other 5 groups on the ASDA, while male schizophrenics attained the lowest mean score in proportion to all the other 6 groups, including the non-clinical 2 groups. All female groups have higher mean scores than their male counterparts.

Many thanks to Professor Robert A. Neimeyer, the Editor-in-Chief of this periodical, as well as two competent anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their valuable comments and constructive suggestions.

Notes

¹Thanks are due to Dr. Eiman Abdel-Hakeem Zayed, PhD, Chief Clinical Psychologist, Hospital of Psychological Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt, for her assistance in administering the scales individually.

Note. F ratio_6,763 = 221.4; p < .0001.

*p < .001 (2-tailed)