Three measures of death anxiety: birth order effects and concurrent validity

Investigated the concurrent validity of three measures of death anxiety and the effect of birth order on death anxiety as measured by each of the scales. Ss were 100 undergraduate students at a large, private, midwestern university. Results showed significant intercorrelations (p less than .001) among the three scales; only one scale (Templer) differentiated first-born and only children from later-born children. The former had higher death anxiety scores (p less than .05).