Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Jarosław Piotrowski Skala lęku i fascynacji śmiercią

Abstrakt

In this study, a novel questionnaire assessing human attitudes to death
is introduced. Invented questionnaire comprises two scales: death anxiety and death
fascination. Death anxiety refers to general fear of death, especially related to oneself.
Death fascination contains not only purely cognitive interest in death and dying,
but also acceptance of committing suicide and declared death desire. Validation was
performed on 725 subjects – mostly citizens of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, in majority
undergraduate and secondary school students of both sexes. This included testing
internal consistency, temporal stability, and external validity. Final version of Death
Anxiety and Fascination Scale contains 23 items. „Anxiety” scale consists of 9 items,
„Fascination” – 14. Reliability of „Anxiety” scale equals 0,80, and of „Fascination”
0,90 (Cronbach’s alpha). The results show high validity and temporal stability of presented
method.