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Age differences in death anxiety among African-American women
J A Thorson1, F C Powell, V T Samuel
1Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha 68182, USA. jthorson@unomaha.edu
Psychological Reports
|March 18, 1999
Abstract:
Samples of 83 younger and 52 older African-American women completed a death anxiety scale; the younger women had significantly higher scores on the total scale, principally on items dealing with pain, loss of bodily integrity, and decomposition.