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Depression and Fear of Death in a Normal Population

Preliminary research suggested a slight association between depression and fears of death. To explore this more fully, 57 students enrolled in undergraduate statistics courses (25 men and 32 women; M,,, = 21.8 yr., SD = 5.2) were given the Collett and Lester (1969) fear of death scale, the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, et al., 1961 ) , and a hopelessness scale (Beck, et al., 1974). The students obtained a mean depression score of 27.6 (SD = 6.1; possible range 21 to 84) and a mean score for hopelessness of 31.4 (SD = 1.7; possible range 20 to 40 ) . Depression scores were negatively related to the fear of death of self (7 -0.26, one-tailed p = 0.02), but not to the fear of death of others ( r = -0.19, p > 0.5), fear of dying of self (7 = -0.20), or fear of dying of others (7 = 0.10). Controlling for sex, age, and the course enrolled in by means of partial correlation coefficients eliminated the lone significant difference (for fear of death of self, the third order parcial r = -0.21, p = 0.06). Hopelessness scores were not significantly related to fear of death of self ( r = -0.14), fear of death of others ( r = -0.03), or fear of dying of self (7 -0.09) but were positively related to fear of others dying ( r = 0.25, p = 0.03). Controlling for sex, age, and the course enrolled in by means of partial correlation coefficients did not eliminate the lone significant difference (for fear of dying of others, the third order parcial r = 0.22, p = 0.05). The few significant correlations suggest that the association between the fears of death and dying and depression and hopelessness are weak or absent.