Research Article Reliability and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Version of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in an Iranian Middle-Aged Sample Mahboubeh Dadfar 1 and Fazel Bahrami 2 1 School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, International Campus, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Islamic Teology and Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Fazel Bahrami; bahrami.fazel@yahoo.com Received 6 August 2016; Accepted 6 November 2016 Academic Editor: Elisabetta Baldi Copyright © 2016 M. Dadfar and F. Bahrami. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Te present study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) in an Iranian middle- aged sample. A sample of 55 volunteer Iranian persons took part in the study. Cronbach’s alpha of the ASDA was found to be high (0.91) and Spearman-Brown and Guttman Split-Half coefcients were 0.86. Te factor analysis of the ASDA items yielded fve factors accounting for 72.49% of the total variance and labeled (F1) fear of death and fear of dead people; (F2) fear of postmortem events and fear of tombs; (F3) fear of lethal disease; (F4) preoccupation with afer death, and death fear in sleep; and (F5) fear of deprivation of own ones. Te ASDA has a good validity and reliability, and it can be used in clinical, educational, and research settings. 1. Introduction Death anxiety is one of psychological important components. People experience varying degrees of anxiety death in their life. Individuals conceal their death anxiety in their own groups. Despite the denial, they experience psychological stress and symptoms of death anxiety [1]. Age operates as a signifcant factor in death anxiety [2]. Fortner and Neimeyer indicated that death anxiety is at its highest level in the middle age, then decreases in late middle age, and remains in the elderly [3]. Cicirelli found middle-aged persons more experience death anxiety than elders because they feel dissonancy between their desires with spent expected time in their lives [4]. Tere is a signifcant diference in the rate of awareness consciousness of death anxiety in developmentally diferent ages. Te construct of midlife crisis as a developmental event occurs in middle-aged persons. Middle-aged individuals encounter one’s own death or death of others. Death is one phenomenon which can exacerbate midlife crisis anxiety. Death anxiety or death fear is one of common causes of midlife crises. Te anxious personality patterns of types complicate midlife crisis [5–8]. One of the correlates infuencing death anxiety is age [9– 18]. Death anxiety afects health promoting behaviors and somatic health in young adults [19, 20]. Te Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) is one of the scales for assessing death anxiety [21]. It has been used in many samples [22–25]. Some studies related to death anxiety have been done on Iranian diferent samples such as college students and nurses using various tools, for example, Templer Death Anx- iety Scale and Collet-Lester Death Fear Scale. Te fndings showed that rate of death anxiety is high in the samples. Te aim of present study is to explore the psychometric properties of the Farsi form of the ASDA among Iranian middle-aged sample who lives in Tehran. Tehran is Iran’ s capital city and has a population density of 11,887 people. Tehran has the most middle-aged and old-aged population in the country. Hindawi Publishing Corporation e Scientific World Journal Volume 2016, Article ID 9457041, 5 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9457041