Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons
Table 3
Factor loadings of the Farsi version of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) in Iranian elders ().
(ASDA) items
Component
1
2
3
(1) I fear death whenever I because ill.
.707
(2) I fear looking at the dead.
.754
(3) I fear visiting graves.
.777
(4) The possibility of having a surgical operation terrifies me.
.610
(5) I am afraid of suffering heart attack.
.782
(6) I worry that death deprives me of someone dear to me.
.631
(7) I am apprehensive of unknown things after death.
.506
(8) I am afraid of looking at a corpse.
.788
(9) I fear the torture of the grave.
(10) I fear getting a serious disease.
.862
(11) Witnessing the burial procedure terrifies me.
.799
(12) I dread walking in graveyards.
.692
(13) I am preoccupied with thinking about what will happen after death.
.509
.517
(14) I am afraid of sleeping and not waking up again.
.696
(15) The pain accompanying death terrifies me.
.749
(16) I get upset by witnessing a funeral.
.854
(17) The sight of a dying person frightens me.
.769
(18) Talking about death upsets me.
.766
(19) I am afraid of getting cancer.
.888
(20) I fear death.
.652
Eigen value
9.94
2.39
1.24
% of variance
49.71
11.95
6.20
% of total variance
67.88
Factor 1 (items: (2), (8), (11), (12), (13), (16), (17), and (18)): fear of dead people and tombs. Factor 2 (items: (4), (5), (6), (7), (10), (13), (15), and (19)): fear of lethal disease and postmortem events. Factor 3 (items: (1), (3), (14), and (20)): death fear.
