Attitude Toward Euthanasia Scale: Psychometric Properties and Relations With Religious Orientation, Personality, and Life Satisfaction. (December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aghababaei, Naser; Wasserman, Jason Adam
• Is Part Of: American journal of hospice & palliative care. Volume 30:Number 8(2013)
• Page Start: 781
• Page End: 785
• Publication Date: 2013-12
• Subjects: end-of-life decisions -- attitude toward euthanasia scale -- individual differences -- personality -- religiosity; Hospice care -- Periodicals; Palliative treatment -- Periodicals; 362.175
• DOI: 10.1177/1049909112472721
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-9091

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.