Actitudes ante la muerte en adolescentespropiedades psicométricas de tres escalas.

  1. Armas Arráez, María Milagros
  2. Alegre de la Rosa, Olga María 1
  3. Gutiérrez Barroso, Josué 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Journal:
International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology: INFAD. Revista de Psicología

ISSN: 0214-9877

Year of publication: 2021

Issue Title: PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE GROWTH. COPING WITH THE DIFFICULTY IN A MATURE WAY: THE RESPONSE TO COVID 19

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 83-96

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17060/IJODAEP.2021.N1.V2.2121 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The need to measure adolescent attitudes to death, since the recent COVID-19 pandemic, has been unleashed in order to subsequently be able to perform psychoeducation based on the level of discomfort warned and to study the changes that have occurred in their attitudes during this crisis of humanity. Until now, at this evolutionary stage, adolescents considered themselves invincible, while thinking of death as far away, yet we believe that the untied facts have changed attitudes to the death of adolescents. Three scales have been chosen to quantify death attitudes: the Death Anxiety Scale (D.A.S.), the Revised Death Depression Scale (D.D.S.-R.) and the Death Obsession Scale (D.O.S.); as they had sufficient reliability and validity with other samples studied. Therefore, the goal was to validate the scales in adolescents. It was conducted through experimental, longitudinal, quantitative, descriptive, comparative, correlational and analytical research. The three scales of death discomfort have been applied in a sample of 1069 young people, analysing their reliability and validity. The results revealed high reliability (Alpha coefficient of Cronbach.719,.896,.920) and content validity (K.M.O..802,.929,.802), which indicated that they could be factored. Concluding that the three scales determine attitudes to the death of adolescents. Therefore, they can be applied after educational interventions to estimate empowerment in time of crisis.

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