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Correlational Study of Death Anxiety, General Anxiety and Locus of Control

1977; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pr0.1977.40.1.51

1558-691X

John F. Patton, Carl B. Freitag,

Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

It was hypothesized that an external locus of control would be correlated with both death anxiety and general anxiety and that the latter two variables would intercorrelate. A separate scale using a Likert-scale format and consisting of the Pt scale of the MMPI and items from a death attitude scale assessed general anxiety and death concern. Significant but small correlations obtained for each major hypothesis and sex and depressive-fear, age and locus of control, age and depressive-fear, birth rank and depressive-fear, and recency of contact with death and depressive-fear.