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Interpretation of Death Scale (IOD)

 

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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.

Online link to Table 2

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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