A 21-item Death Depression Scale-Revised was constructed to be more independent of death anxiety than the original 17-item Death Depression Scale. This new instrument had a Chronbach's alpha of .92, reasonable correlations with death anxiety and general depression and general anxiety, a meaningful factor structure, and a correlation of .85 between Likert and true-false formats.
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