DEATH DISCOMFORT DIFFERENTIAL

The differential correlations of death depression and death anxiety we re explored. Death anxiety was more highly correlated with general anx iety, the four subscales of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, fe male gender, and less religiosity. Death depression was more associate d with general depression. Such differentiation could not be made with the raw scores of the Death Depression Scale and the Death Anxiety Sc ale. A differentiation was made, however, using a new ten-item scale b ased upon factor scores of the two above scales.