The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between death anxiety and psychosocial functioning of medical students. Subjects were 50 first-year students, with instruments including the Death Anxiety Scale and the California Psychological Inventory. Product-moment correlations computed between test scores indicated significant, negative relationships between death anxiety and the California Psychological Inventory measures of Well-being (r = –.52), Good Impression (r = –.43), Self-control (r = –.30), and Tolerance (r = –.29). These results suggest that increased death anxiety may be associated with somewhat compromised social performance.
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