Abstract
Anthropologists frequently incorporate psychological concepts such as death anxiety into their sociocultural theorizing, but are reluctant to use the psychological instrumentation quantifying these concepts. Due to the needs of ethnographic fieldwork, behavioral proxies should be identified for psychological concepts wherever possible. Two exploratory studies investigate whether procrastination might serve as just such a proxy for death anxiety. While significant results were found, they are too weak for the intended field application.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
June 1995
Repository Citation
Donovan, James M., "Relating Psychological Measures to Anthropological Observations: Procrastination as a Field Proxy for Death Anxiety?" (1995). Law Faculty Scholarly Articles. 453.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/453
