Does anyone know of psychometric scales to measure preparedness towards death and family stability?

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Stephen Cheung

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your question. The following links might be of interest to you.

Best wishes,

Stephen

http://www.drpaulwong.com/documents/wong-scales/death-attitude-profile-revised-scale.pdf

http://www.drpaulwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DEATH-attitude-Profile-Revised-Chapter.pdf

Article Death preparedness: a concept analysis

Andreas Wieland

Maybe check the following resource as well as the other resources mentioned there: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Management_Scales