Eighty female undergraduates were administered four written questionnaires on death anxiety, sense of competence, need for achievement, and general anxiety. An open ended question on the personification of death was also included. As predicted, a negative correlation was found between death anxiety and sense of competence. No correlation was found between death anxiety and need for achievement and no interaction effect occurred between need for achievement and sense of competence. General anxiety correlated highly with death anxiety. Degree of death anxiety and type of personification were also related.
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