Table 2.
Factor loadings of the Farsi version of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) in Iranian psychiatric outpatients (N = 52).
| (ASDA) Items | Component | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| (1) I fear death whenever I become ill. | .247 | .465 | .341 | .341 |
| (2) I fear looking at the dead. | .095 | .796 | .257 | −.187 |
| (3) I fear visiting graves. | .112 | .182 | .857 | .001 |
| (4) The possibility of having a surgical operation terrifies me. | .621 | .348 | .179 | −.025 |
| (5) I am afraid of suffering heart attack. | .833 | .207 | .092 | .242 |
| (6) I worry that death deprives me of someone dear to me. | −.068 | .666 | −.059 | .186 |
| (7) I am apprehensive of unknown things after death. | .197 | .787 | .082 | .179 |
| (8) I am afraid of looking at a corpse. | .367 | .495 | .548 | −.103 |
| (9) I fear the torture of the grave. | .216 | .638 | −.038 | .393 |
| (10) I fear getting a serious disease. | .803 | .026 | .002 | .364 |
| (11) Witnessing the burial procedure terrifies me. | .616 | .298 | .479 | .072 |
| (12) I dread walking in graveyards. | .157 | −.067 | .792 | .304 |
| (13) I am preoccupied with thinking about what will happen after death. | .038 | .283 | .475 | .680 |
| (14) I am afraid of sleeping and not waking up again. | .291 | .050 | .500 | .479 |
| (15) The pain accompanying death terrifies me. | .493 | .258 | −.038 | .495 |
| (16) I get upset by witnessing a funeral. | .658 | .495 | .209 | .238 |
| (17) The sight of a dying person frightens me. | .539 | .580 | .306 | −.006 |
| (18) Talking about death upsets me. | .462 | .638 | .250 | .263 |
| (19) I am afraid of getting cancer. | .748 | −.157 | .302 | −.090 |
| (20) I fear death. | .521 | .457 | .444 | .068 |
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| Eigenvalue | 8.79 | 2.01 | 1.64 | 1.15 |
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| % of variance | 43.97 | 10.05 | 8.21 | 5.75 |
| % of total variance | 67.99 | |||
Factor 1 (items: 4, 5, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, and 20): fear of lethal disease; Factor 2 (items: 2, 6, 7, 9, 17, and 18): fear of dead people and death fear; Factor 3 (items: 3, 8, 12, and 14): fear of tombs; Factor 4 (item 13): fear of postmortem events.