Personality correlates of the Fear of Death and Dying Scale.

A total of 88 female and male undergraduates completed the Fear of Death and Dying Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-Trait scale. The four subscales on the Fear of Death and Dying Scale correlated significantly with the Neuroticism and Anxiety scales, but were independent of the Lie scale. No sex differences were found on the four subscales. These findings lend support to the validity of the Fear of Death and Dying Scale and its independence of social desirability.