Correlates of a Taoist Orientation among Korean Students

Abstract

Associations of .35 and -.34, respectively, were found for a measure of having a Taoist orientation to life with death anxiety and the perception that one's self is unified (versus fragmented) in samples of 41 Korean high school and 145 Korean university students.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Death Anxiety: A Brief Note

“…It appears, therefore, that, at least among undergraduate students, women have a higher self-reported fear of death than do men. Reimer and Templer (1995-1996) Abdel-Khalek (2003, 2006) Abdel-Khalek (2003, 2004, 2006, Awadalla, Al-Fayez, Arikawa, and Templer (2002-03) Abdel-Khalek (1986, 2006) Awadalla, Al-Fayez, Arikawa, and Templer (2002-2003) Park, Zeyrek, and Lester (2007) Warren and Chopra (1978, Schumaker, Barraclough, andVagg (1988) Schell (1984) from Table 1 Roshdieh, Templer, Cannon, and Canfield (1998-1999) Abdel-Khalek (2003, 2006) Zeyrek and Lester (2006 Tomas-Sabado and Gomez-Benito (2002) Tang, Wu, & Yan (2002) The associations between the mean scores in the samples for men and women, both in the 23 samples from the United States and in the 15 samples from around the world, indicate that the level of the fear of death in nations is consistent in both men and women.…”

Reliability of the Ego-Grasping Scale

“…Negative correlations were found between Ego-Grasping Scale scores and scores on Altrocchi's (1999) scale to measure the unity of the self (−.47) for 61 American students (Lester, 2003), 100 Turkish students (−.28) and 99 American students (−.38) , and 186 Korean students (−.35) (Park, et al, 2007) Lester, 2007a;Lester & Abdel-Khalek, 2007).…”