چکیده:
Objective: This study is an attempt to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian
version of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale among men and women attending in religious
rituals of Mosques in Shiraz, Iran.
Methods: The sample consisted of 157 participants attending in religious rituals of Mosques in
Shiraz, who were selected by a convenience sampling method after obtaining informed consent.
They completed the Reasons for Death Fear Scale.
Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis on RDFS identified 4 factors. Cronbach´s
α coefficients was 0.86 for the entire of measure (18 items), with alphas ranging from 0.70 to
0.81 for the individual factors. The indices of convergent and divergent validity for this scale
were all significant (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: Given the validity and reliability of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale, this scale
can be used in clinical settings and research studies.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of Reasons for Death Fear Scale Gholamreza Rajabi1*/, Zahra Naderi Nobandegani2 1.
9 Article info: Received: 03 Jun 2019 Accepted: 23 Oct 2019 Available Online: 01 Jan 2020 Keywords: Death, Reason for death, Reliability, Validity ABSTRACT Objective: This study is an attempt to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale among men and women attending in religious rituals of Mosques in Shiraz, Iran.
Plain Language Summary This study is an attempt to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale among men and women attending in religious rituals of Mosques in Shiraz, Iran.
Also, various studies consider variables that are related to death such as death anxiety (Abdl-khalek & Tomas-Sabado, 2005; Chen, Benk, & Lewis, 2006; Rajabi & Bahrani, 2002; Templer, 1970; death obsession (Abdel-khalek, 1998; Abdel-khalek, 2002b; Abdel-khalek, Al-Arja, & Abdalla, 2006; Maltby & Day, 2000; Rajabi, 2009), death depression (Almostadi, 2012; Alvarado, Templer, Bresler, & Thomas-Dobson, 1995; Rajabi, Begdeli, & Naderi Nobandegani, 2015), death distress (Abdl-khalek, 2004; Abdl-khalek, 2005; Al-Sabwah & Abdel-khalek, 2005-2006), attitude toward death (Abu Hasheesh, Al-Sayed AboZeid, Goda El-Zaid, & Alhu-jaili, 2013; Dezutter, Luyckx, & Hutsebaut, 2009; Nei-meyer, Wittkowski, & Moser, 2004).
In a factor analysis, Abdel-khalek (2002) identi-fied 4 reasons for death fear: fear of pain and punish-ment, fear of losing worldly involvements, religious transgressions and failures, and parting from loved ones.