Attitude Toward Euthanasia Scale: Psychometric Properties and Relations With Religious Orientation, Personality, and Life Satisfaction
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Abstract
End-of-life decisions (ELDs) represent a controversial subject, with ethical dilemmas and empirical ambiguities that stand at the intersection of ethics and medicine. In a non-Western population, we examined individual differences in perceiving ELDs that end the life of a patient as acceptable and found that an attitude toward euthanasia (ATE) scale consists of 2 factors representing voluntary and nonvoluntary euthanasia. Also, acceptance of ELDs that end the life of a patient negatively correlated with life satisfaction, honesty–humility, conscientiousness, and intrinsic and extrinsic personal motivation toward religion. These findings provided additional construct validity of the ATE scale.
DOI
10.1177/1049909112472721
Publication Date
12-2013
Keywords
attitude toward euthanasia scale, end-of-life decisions, individual differences, personality, religiosity
ISSN
1938-2715
Recommended Citation
Aghababaei N, Wasserman JA. Attitude Toward Euthanasia Scale: Psychometric Properties and Relations With Religious Orientation, Personality, and Life Satisfaction. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 2013; 30(8). doi: 10.1177/1049909112472721.
