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Scale
overview: The
Interpretation of Death Scale (IOD) is a 14-item multidimensional measure of adult’s
self-reported interpretations of death and related concepts such as afterlife
beliefs, suffering, and meaning of life.
Authors: Fortuin, Nienke P. M and others
Response
Type: 5-point
Likert scale ranging from 1 (disagree completely) to 5 (agree completely)
Scale
items: There are 14
items.
Sample
items
I believe that after death we leave the
earthly realm and enter the heavenly realm of God.
My consciousness will utterly cease to exist
when my brain stops functioning
Item notes (page 8 of Fortuin et al., 2021)
All items were originally phrased in Dutch and
have been translated by
the first author. In order to explicate what is
meant by God, we wrote above this scale:
“It is important that, where ‘God’ is
mentioned, we do not necessarily
mean the Christian God. You can also read ‘the
creator’, ‘Allah’, ‘the
eternal’ or another indication for who or what
you consider to be God
or the divine”.
Psychometric
properties
Internal
consistency Cronbach alpha values for the three subscales
Religious
= .96
Rational = .73
Personal
= .63
Construct validity: Factor Analysis supported 3 factors
Availability:
The items
can be found in Table 2, page 8 of Fortuin et al., 2021.
Reference
for the scale
Fortuin, Nienke P. M. (2021). Interpretation and timing of
death: The development and initial validation of the Interpretation of Death
(IOD) Scale and the Attitudes Toward Medical Interventions in the Timing of
Death (AMITOD) Scale. Death Studies, 45(4), 282-295. doi:
10.1080/07481187.2019.1626950
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Post Author
Geoffrey W. Sutton PhD is Emeritus Professor of Psychology who publishes book and articles about clinical and social psychology including the psychology of religion. Website: www.suttong.com
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