204
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLES

The Comparison of Predictors of Death Obsession within Two Cultures

&
Pages 366-377 | Received 20 Nov 2006, Accepted 10 May 2007, Published online: 17 Apr 2008

References

  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 1996 ). Manual for the Arabic scale of optimism and pessimism . Alexandria , Egypt : Dar Al-Maarifa Al-Jamiiyah .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 1998a ). Optimism and physical health: A factorial study . Journal of the Social Sciences , 26 ( 2 ), 45 – 62 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 1998b ). The structure and measurement of death obsession . Personality and Individual Differences , 24 , 159 – 165 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2000a ). The death obsession scale . In J. Maltby , C. A. Lewis , & A. Hill (Eds.), Commissioned reviews of 250 psychological tests (Vol. 2 , pp. 563 – 565 ). Lewiston , NY : The Edwin Mellen Press .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2000b ). The Kuwait university anxiety scale: Psychometric properties . Psychological Reports , 87 , 478 – 492 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2005 ). Happiness and death distress: Two separate factors . Death Studies , 29 , 949 – 958 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2006 ). Happiness, health and religiosity: Significant relations . Mental Health, Religion and Culture , 9 , 85 – 97 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Al-Damaty , A. A. ( 2003 ). The Kuwait university anxiety scale: Results for 9,031 Saudi students . Psychological Reports , 93 , 203 – 212 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Al-Sabwah , M. N. ( 2005 ). Satisfaction with life and death distress . Psychological Reports , 97 , 790 – 792 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Lester , D. ( 2002 ). Can personality predict suicidality? A study in two cultures . International Journal of Social Psychiatry , 48 , 231 – 239 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Lester , D. ( 2003a ). Death obsession in Kuwaiti and American college students . Death Studies , 27 , 541 – 553 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Lester , D. ( 2003b ). The Kuwait University Anxiety Scale: A cross-cultural evaluation in Kuwait and United States . Psychological Reports , 93 , 1109 – 1114 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. & Lester , D. ( 2006 ). Optimism and pessimism in Kuwaiti and American college students . International Journal of Social Psychiatry , 52 , 110 – 126 .
  • Abdel-Khalek , A. M. , Tomás-Sabádo , J. , & Gomez-Bénito , J. (2004). Psychometric parameters of the Spanish version of the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale (S-KUAS). European Journal of Psychological Assessment , 20, 349–357.
  • American Psychiatric Association . ( 1998 ). Practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with panic disorder . American Journal of Psychiatry , 155 ( Suppl. 12 ), 1 – 34 .
  • Alansari , B. M. ( 2002 ). Kuwait University Scale of Anxiety: A study of its correlations. Validity and Reliability coefficients on a sample of Kuwait University . Journal of the College of Arts, Alexandria University , 38 , 1 – 47 .
  • Alansari , B. M. ( 2004 ). Cultural differences in anxiety among undergraduates from eighteen Arab countries . Arabic Studies in Psychology , 3 ( 4 ), 81 – 122 .
  • Al-Sabwah , M. N. & Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2006 ). Religiosity and death distress in Arabic college students , Death Studies , 30 , 365 – 375 .
  • Barlow , D. H. , Chorpita , B. F. , & Turovsky , J. ( 1996 ). Fear, panic, anxiety, and disorders of emotion . In D. A. Hope (Ed.), Perspectives on anxiety, panic, and fear ( The 43rd Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation , pp. 251 – 328 ). Lincoln : Nebraska University Press .
  • Crosby , J. F. ( 1976 ). Theories of anxiety: A theoretical perspective . American Journal of Psychoanalysis , 36 , 237 – 248 .
  • Dember , W. N. ( 2001 ). The optimism-pessimism instrument: Personal and social correlates . In C. E. Chang (Ed.), Optimism and pessimism: Indications for theory, research, and practice (pp. 281 – 299 ). Washington : American Psychological Association .
  • Erikson , E. H. ( 1963 ). Childhood and society ( , 2nd ed. ). New York : Norton .
  • Feifel , H. ( 1990 ). Psychology and death: Meaningful rediscovery . American Psychologist , 45 , 537 – 543 .
  • Kastenbaum , R. ( 1987 ). Gerontology . In G. L. Maddox (Ed.), The encyclopedia of aging (pp. 288 – 90 ). New York : Springer .
  • Kastenbaum , R. & Costa , P. T. , Jr. ( 1977 ). Psychological perspectives on death . Annual Review of Psychology , 28 , 225 – 249 .
  • Kübler-Ross , E. ( 1969 ). On death and dying . London : Macmillan .
  • Lester , D. & Abdel-Khalek , A. M. ( 2003 ). Correlates of an ego-grasping attitude in Kuwaiti and American students . Psychological Reports , 92 , 488 .
  • Lonetto , R. & Templer , D. I. ( 1986 ). Death anxiety . Washington , DC : Hemisphere .
  • Maltby , J. & Day , L. ( 2000a ). Religious orientation and death obsession . Journal of Genetic Psychology , 16 , 122 – 124 .
  • Maltby , J. & Day , L. ( 2000b ). The reliability and validity of the Death Obsession Scale among English university and adult populations . Personality and Individual Differences , 28 , 695 – 700 .
  • Neimeyer , R. A. (Ed.). ( 1994 ). Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application , Philadelphia , PA : Taylor & Francis .
  • Neimeyer , R. A. , Moser , R. , & Wittkowski , J. ( 2003 ). Assessing attitudes toward death: Psychometric considerations . Omega , 47 , 45 – 76
  • Neimeyer , R. A. , Wittkowski , J. , & Moser , R. P. ( 2004 ). Psychological research on death attitudes: An overview and evaluation . Death Studies , 28 , 309 – 340 .
  • Ryan , R. M. & Deci , E. L. ( 2001 ). On happiness and human potentials: A review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being . Annual Review of Psychology , 52 , 141 – 166 .
  • Scheier , M. F. & Carver , C. S. (1985). Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies. Health Psychology , 4, 219–247.
  • Scheier , M. F. , Carver , C. S. , & Bridges , M. W. ( 2001 ). Optimism, pessimism, and psychological well-being . In E. C. Chang (Ed.), Optimism and pessimism: Implications for theory, research, and practice (pp. 189 – 216 ). Washington , DC : American Psychological Association .
  • Schultz , R. & Aderman , D. ( 1974 ). Clinical research and the stages of dying . Omega: Journal of Death and Dying , 5 , 137 – 143 .
  • Seligman , M. E. P. ( 1991 ). Learned optimism . New York : Knopf .
  • Templer , D. I. ( 1970 ). The construction and validation of a death anxiety scale . Journal of General Psychology , 82 , 165 – 177 .
  • Templer , D. I. , Lavoie , M. , Chalgujian , H. , & Thomas-Dobson , S. ( 1990 ). The measurement of death depression . Journal of Clinical Psychology , 46 , 834 – 839 .
  • Thorn , G. R. , Chosak , A. , Baker , S. L. , & Barlow , D. H. ( 1999 ). Psychological theories of panic disorder . In D. J. Nutt , J. C. Ballenger , & J. P. Lepine (Eds.), Panic disorder: Clinical diagnosis, management and mechanisms (pp. 93 – 108 ). London : Martin Dunitz Ltd .
  • Tomás-Sábado , J. & Gómez-Benito , J. ( 2002–2003 ). Psychometric properties of the Spanish adaptation of the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) . Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying , 46 , 259 – 268 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.