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- Title
THE DEATH DEPRESSION SCALE-REVISED. PRELIMINARY EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE SPANISH FORM.
- Authors
TOMÁS-SÁBADO, JOAQUÍN; LIMONERO, JOAQUÍN T.; TEMPLER, DONALD I.; GÓMEZ-BENITO, JUANA
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to translate Templer et al.'s Death Depression Scale-Revised into Spanish and to evaluate its psychometric properties in a sample of Spanish students. The Death Depression Scale-Revised is a 21-item Likert format questionnaire that could also be applied in true-false format. The Spanish form of the scale was answered by 342 psychology and nursing undergraduates, obtaining a Cronbach's coefficient alpha of .90, and test-retest correlation over four weeks was .87. The first solution of a principal components analysis yielded four significant factors with Eigenvalues greater than one that accounted for 59.3% of the variance. These factors were called, respectively: anergia and vacuum, death sadness, others' death, and anhedonia. The results show that the Spanish adaptation of the Death Depression Scale-Revised has an adequate internal consistency, criterion-validity, and a coherent factorial structure.
- Subjects
SPAIN; PSYCHIATRIC rating scales; DEATH Depression Scale; MENTAL illness treatment -- Evaluation; PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis; PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS; DEATH; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2004, Vol 50, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article