Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale

By David Lester, A. Abdel-Khalek. 2015

111 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology

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1. J. A. Chambers
2. J. Pierce
3. Rachel M. Meade
4. M. Farias
5. Richard P. Moser
6. Adam B. Cohen
7. R. Neimeyer
8. J. Wittkowski

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death: Psychometric Considerations (2003, background): “Although it has shown strong correlations with other measures of death anxiety, it has also demonstrated high associations with measures of social desirability (Lester, 1994).”
• The functional nature of conspiracy beliefs: Examining the underpinnings of belief in the Da Vinci Code conspiracy (2011, methodology): “The extent to which participants were anxious about aspects of death (1 = not anxious to 6 = very anxious) was measured with the 16-item Collett–Lester Fear of Death scale (Lester, 1994).”
• Gender differences in death anxiety and religious orientation among US high school and college students (2007, methodology): “, the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (Hoelter, 1979, reviewed in Neimeyer & Moore, 1994) and the Collett–Lester Fear of Death Scale (Collett & Lester, 1969; Lester, 1994); these scales are considerably longer and less widely used.”