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A total of 157 undergraduates (58 men, 99 women) completed self-esteem and death anxiety testing instruments. In agreement with previous research, it was found that women had higher death anxiety scores than men, and that subjects low in self-esteem had higher death anxiety scores than those high in self-esteem. Unlike previous research, the present data failed to yield a significant difference in level of self-esteem between men and women.
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Buzzanga, V.L., Miller, H.R., Perne, S.E. et al. The relationship between death anxiety and level of self-esteem: A reassessment. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 27, 570–572 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334672
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