208 undergraduate and graduate students completed the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and a scale designed to measure death anxiety. Females and persons high in the trait of succorance had higher death anxiety, while males and persons high in endurance, aggression, and exhibition indicated less death anxiety. Students majoring in social work tended to have higher death anxiety, and students in the College of Business had significantly lower fear of death.
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