- 著者
- AFZAL KURESHI AKBAR HUSAIN
- 出版者
- The Japanese Psychological Association
- 雑誌
- Japanese Psychological Research (ISSN:00215368)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.23, no.2, pp.55-60, 1981-09-30 (Released:2009-02-24)
- 参考文献数
- 27
- 被引用文献数
- 1 1
The twenty five male Palestinian students and the same number of their Indian counterparts, drawn from the Aligarh Muslim University graduate classes, were administered individually the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and Dominance Scale (DS), The Palestinian students were found to score lower than the Indian students on the DAS (t=3.01, df=48, p<.01), whereas Dominance was found to be higher among the former than the latter (t=2.72, df=48, p<.01). Besides, a negative relationship was discovered between Death Anxiety and Dominance (r=-.534). Compared with the Indians a low amount of Death Anxiety among the Palestinians was explained mainly in terms of the sense of dedication to their cause, exposure to a threatening environment and a mental set of readiness to withstand any eventuality. Likewise, a higher score on Dominance among the Palestinians was explained partly in terms of these factors as well as the contribution they were supposed to make to the liberation movement, requiring them to be assertive, ascendent and powerful.