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How healthcare workers respond to COVID-19: The role of vulnerability and social support in a close relationships defense mechanism

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2021
Healthcare workers play a vital role in the fight against COVID-19. Based on Terror Management Theory (TMT), the present research examined whether a close relationships defense mechanism reduces anxiety among healthcare workers (N = 729) in China.
Yunjiao Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Does Existential Threat Promote Intergroup Violence? Examining the Role of Retributive Justice and Cost-Benefit Utility Motivations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The current research examined the role of retributive justice and cost-benefit utility motivations in the process through which mortality salience increases support for violent responses to intergroup conflict.
Gilad eHirschberger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Work, love, and death thought accessibility: a terror management investigation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Terror management theory suggests that following culturally derived scripts for valued behaviour protects people from death concerns, and conversely, not meeting standards for cultural value can weaken this protection, heightening mortality concerns ...
Daly, Michael   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Subliminal mortality salience does not increase physical strength output in double-blind randomized controlled trial

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionUsing the morality salience paradigm, this research tested whether subliminal death stimuli lead to increased physical strength. Moreover, it was investigated if mindfulness and self-esteem instability influence terror management.MethodsIn ...
Christopher T. J. Bartenschlager   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

From the Grave to the Cradle: Evidence That Mortality Salience Engenders a Desire for Offspring. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
On the basis of terror management theory, the authors hypothesized that reminders of mortality (mortality salience) should promote the desire for offspring to the extent that it does not conflict with other self-relevant worldviews that also serve to ...
Wisman, Arnaud   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and ...
Sarah eHirschmüller, Boris eEgloff
doaj   +1 more source

Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
core   +1 more source

Data from Paper ‘Embodied Terror Management: Interpersonal Touch Alleviates Existential Concerns among Individuals with Low Self-esteem’

open access: yesJournal of Open Psychology Data, 2015
The dataset includes data from the four studies reported in our 'Embodied terror management' paper. The data was collected at either the campus or at the psychology lab at the VU University Amsterdam in 2011/2012 among Dutch-speaking student samples. The
Mandy Tjew-A-Sin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror Scale: Development and Validation for Portuguese Accounting Professionals

open access: yesEconomies, 2021
This research aims to adapt the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror and its use on Portuguese Accounting Professionals. Leymann scale was applied in a final sample of 478 accountants aged between 28 and 68, of which 47.5% were men and 52.5% women ...
Rui Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

EXERCISE UNDER DEATH-ANXIETY: INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR FROM PERSPECTIVE OF TERROR MANAGEMENT AND BEHAVIORAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sports Sciences, 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has spread worldwide and become the world’s leading health concern. Individuals are advised to stay inside and do exercise at home to avoid exposure to the disease and their psychological state is concerned.
Xuan Pan
doaj   +3 more sources

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