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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology

  • KOREAN
  • P-ISSN1229-070X
  • E-ISSN2713-9581
  • KCI

The Cross-cultural Examination and Validation Study of Multidimensional Fear of Death in South Korea

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2005, v.10 no.4, pp.395-413




Abstract

Death anxiety has been considered as having multidimensional structure but not single dimension. Multi-dimensional Fear of Death Scale (MFODS) of Hoelter(1979) consists of 8 subscales reflecting multiple death anxiety. This study aims to validate and examine structure of the MFODS in a South Korean sample cross-culturelly. A sample of volunteer 312 over 20 years old and 181 above 40 years of age was analysed. Although 42 items of the Scale have shrunk into 29 items by empirical analysis, the original seven-factor structure of the MFODS was replicated in the Korean sample except Fear of Conscious Death, which seems to be inappropriate in the Korean Culture. The seven-factor structure of this study include Fear of the Dying Process, Fear of the Dead, Fear of Being Destroyed, Fear of Significant Others, Fear of the Unknown, Fear for Body after Death, and Fear of Premature Death. Internal consistency of the MFODS was .89, test-retest reliability was .62. MFODS has a significant positive correlation with Templer death anxiety scale(r=.70) and Templer death depression scale(r=.66). But Fear of Being Destroyed could be simply reflection negative attitude about organ donation. Six dimension except fear of conscious death and negative attitude about organ donation seems to be appropriate in the korean culture. The present results also indicated the possibility of different age effect on the structure of death anxiety.

keywords
multidimensional, death anxiety, cross-cultural., multidimensional, death anxiety, cross-cultural., 다차원적, 죽음불안, 비교문화

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