Table 2.
Exploratory factor analysis results of the Chinese version of the Arabic Scale of DeathAnxiety [ASDA(C)] (Half of total sample, n=600)
| factors and corresponding contents of Items | component | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Fear of dead people and tombs (39.84% of variance) | |||
| Q.3 I fear visiting graves. | 0.827 | 0.114 | 0.058 |
| Q.8 I am afraid of looking at a corpse. | 0.826 | 0.262 | 0.051 |
| Q.2 I fear looking at the dead. | 0.812 | 0.228 | -0.027 |
| Q.12 I dread walking in graveyards. | 0.694 | 0.090 | 0.325 |
| Q.11 Witnessing the burial procedure terrifies me. | 0.688 | 0.199 | 0.379 |
| Q.9 I fear the torture of the grave. | 0.603 | 0.263 | 0.409 |
| Q.17 The sight of a dying person frightens me. | 0.587 | 0.297 | 0.264 |
| Q.16 I get upset by witnessing a funeral. | 0.442 | 0.151 | 0.501 |
| Fear of lethal disease (9.66% of variance) | |||
| Q.19 I am afraid of getting cancer. | 0.098 | 0.844 | 0.134 |
| Q.10 I fear getting a serious disease. | 0.175 | 0.783 | 0.140 |
| Q.20 I fear death. | 0.168 | 0.760 | 0.189 |
| Q.6 I worry that death may deprive me of someone dear to me. | 0.245 | 0.640 | 0.012 |
| Q.1 I fear death whenever I became ill. | 0.100 | 0.537 | 0.325 |
| Q.4 The possibility of having a surgical operation terrifies me. | 0.399 | 0.530 | 0.138 |
| Q.5 I am afraid of suffering a heart attack. | 0.267 | 0.493 | 0.296 |
| Fear of postmortem events (7.58% of variance) | |||
| Q.14 I am afraid of sleeping and not waking up again. | 0.031 | 0.031 | 0.784 |
| Q.13 I am preoccupied with thinking about what will happen after death. | 0.075 | 0.174 | 0.693 |
| Q.18 Talking about death upsets me. | 0.315 | 0.238 | 0.598 |
| Q.7 I am apprehensive of unknown things after death. | 0.234 | 0.344 | 0.544 |
| Q.15 The pain accompanying death terrifies me. | 0.156 | 0.468 | 0.471 |
| Eigenvalue | 7.968 | 1.931 | 1.516 |
| Cronbach’s alpha coefficient | 0.898 | 0.847 | 0.747 |
Q= item numberof ASDA(C)