Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties

This research adapted Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970) for Mexican Spanish and obtained psychometric properties for two samples of Mexican adults. A total of 314 subjects were interviewed, 165 of whom were elderly adults (97 women, average age 61.7, SD = 9.7 and 68 men, average age 62.7, SD...

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Autores Principales: Rivera-Ledesma, Armando, Montero-Lopez Lena, María
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Lenguaje:Español (Spanish)
Publicado: Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia 2010
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spelling ir-11634-68362019-07-03T15:03:37Z Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties Propiedades psicométricas de la escala de ansiedad ante la muerte de Templer en sujetos mexicanos Rivera-Ledesma, Armando Montero-Lopez Lena, María Psicología ansiedad; muerte; adultos mayores; estudiantes universitarios Psychology anxiety; death; elderly adults; undergraduate students This research adapted Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970) for Mexican Spanish and obtained psychometric properties for two samples of Mexican adults. A total of 314 subjects were interviewed, 165 of whom were elderly adults (97 women, average age 61.7, SD = 9.7 and 68 men, average age 62.7, SD = 8.3) and 149 undergraduate students (132 women, average age 19.4, SD = 1.3 and 17 men, average age 19.9, SD = 1.3. The scale was changed to a four point Likert scale. The principal component analysis with varimax rotation, applied to the data from both samples (elderly adults and undergraduate students), yielded 3 factors for each group. The factor structure obtained from the responses provided by the undergraduate students only slightly agreed with that reported by Tomás-Sábado and Gómez-Benito (2002) for an equivalent Spanish sample. Internal consistence for elderly adults was a=.86, and a=.83 for undergraduate students. Discriminant validity was documented. The version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale presented would seem to have adequate psychometric properties for its use with elderly Mexican adults. Finally, the results provide evidence of the possible impact the cultural differences between Spanish-speaking nations and generations have on the psychometric properties of the scale.  La presente investigación adaptó la Escala de Ansiedad ante la Muerte de Templer (1970) al español mexicano y obtuvo sus propiedades psicométricas para dos muestras de adultos mexicanos radicados en la ciudad de México. Se entrevistaron 314 sujetos: 165 fueron adultos mayores (97 mujeres y 68 hombres con una edad media de 61.7 y 62.7 respectivamente) y 149 estudiantes universitarios (132 mujeres y 17 hombres con una edad media de 19.4 y 19.9 años). La escala de respuesta se cambió por una escala Likert de cuatro puntos. La estructura del instrumento fue evaluada mediante análisis factorial de componentes principales con rotación varimax en ambas muestras, logrando tres factores para cada grupo. La estructura factorial obtenida de las respuestas de los estudiantes universitarios sólo concordó ligeramente con lo reportado por Tomás-Sábado & Gómez-Benito (2002) en una muestra española equivalente. La consistencia interna del instrumento, medida con el alfa de Cronbach, en cada muestra indica para adultos mayores (.86) y para estudiantes (.83). Se obtuvieron propiedades psicométricas que la hacen recomendable para su uso en adultos mayores mexicanos. Finalmente, los resultados aportan nuevas evidencias sobre los efectos psicométricos derivados del posible impacto cultural de diferentes naciones de habla hispana y, entre generaciones.  2010-06-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/diversitas/article/view/257 10.15332/s1794-9998.2010.0001.10 spa https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/diversitas/article/view/257/431 https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/diversitas/article/view/257/432 application/pdf text/html Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia Diversitas; Vol. 6, Núm. 1 (2010); 135-140 Diversitas; Vol. 6, Núm. 1 (2010); 135-140 2256-3067 1794-9998
institution Universidad Santo Tomas
collection DSpace
language Español (Spanish)
topic Psicología
ansiedad; muerte; adultos mayores; estudiantes universitarios
Psychology
anxiety; death; elderly adults; undergraduate students
spellingShingle Psicología
ansiedad; muerte; adultos mayores; estudiantes universitarios
Psychology
anxiety; death; elderly adults; undergraduate students
Rivera-Ledesma, Armando
Montero-Lopez Lena, María
Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
description This research adapted Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970) for Mexican Spanish and obtained psychometric properties for two samples of Mexican adults. A total of 314 subjects were interviewed, 165 of whom were elderly adults (97 women, average age 61.7, SD = 9.7 and 68 men, average age 62.7, SD = 8.3) and 149 undergraduate students (132 women, average age 19.4, SD = 1.3 and 17 men, average age 19.9, SD = 1.3. The scale was changed to a four point Likert scale. The principal component analysis with varimax rotation, applied to the data from both samples (elderly adults and undergraduate students), yielded 3 factors for each group. The factor structure obtained from the responses provided by the undergraduate students only slightly agreed with that reported by Tomás-Sábado and Gómez-Benito (2002) for an equivalent Spanish sample. Internal consistence for elderly adults was a=.86, and a=.83 for undergraduate students. Discriminant validity was documented. The version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale presented would seem to have adequate psychometric properties for its use with elderly Mexican adults. Finally, the results provide evidence of the possible impact the cultural differences between Spanish-speaking nations and generations have on the psychometric properties of the scale. 
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author Rivera-Ledesma, Armando
Montero-Lopez Lena, María
author_facet Rivera-Ledesma, Armando
Montero-Lopez Lena, María
author_sort Rivera-Ledesma, Armando
title Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
title_short Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
title_full Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
title_fullStr Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
title_full_unstemmed Templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
title_sort templers death anxiety scale: mexican psychometric properties
publisher Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia
publishDate 2010
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