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An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2015
Physical death is an inevitable part of life. From the perspective of terror management theory (TMT), people’s efforts to manage the awareness of death can sometimes have harmful social consequences.
Kenneth E. Vail, III, Jacob Juhl
doaj   +2 more sources

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

The Roles of Self-Esteem and Attachment within the Framework of Terror Management Theory [PDF]

open access: yesPsikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2019
Built upon the idea that human beings, as the only species whose members are aware of their own consciousness and future death, have to come up with a system to deal with this awareness, Terror Management theory aims to shed light on the mechanisms that ...
Volkan Koc, Gulnihal Kafa
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Management of Terror and Worry During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Religiosity and a Dream of Human Solidarity Help the Polish People Cope

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, which involves the threat of contracting a potentially fatal disease, can be understood as a source of terror. According to terror management theory, people shield themselves from terror by adopting culturally specific worldviews ...
Arkadiusz Gut   +4 more
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Putting the Terror Management Theory to Work: Exploration and Explanation

open access: yesPolish Political Science Yearbook, 2021
Book review: Bartosz Bolechów, Gdy światło się mroczy: Światopogląd Państwa Islamskiego w perspektywie teorii opanowywania trwogi, Toruń 2020, pp. 276.
Joanna Rak
doaj   +1 more source

Consequences of information covering the COVID-19 pandemic from the point of view of Terror Management Theory [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The article is devoted to the description and explanation of individual psychological and social phenomena from the point of view of actualizing thanatic issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and its information coverage.
Dmitrieva Polina
doaj   +1 more source

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

An Economic Model of Mortality Salience in Personal Financial Decision Making: Applications to Annuities, Life Insurance, Charitable Gifts, Estate Planning, Conspicuous Consumption, and Healthcare

open access: yesJournal of Financial Therapy, 2016
The study of personal mortality salience and the denial of death have a long history in psychology leading to the modern field of Terror Management Theory.
Russell N James III
doaj   +1 more source

Albert Camus – A Psychobiographical Approach in Times of Covid-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Albert Camus (1913–1960) stands as one of the famous pioneers in the French history of existentialism. He was a novelist, political activist, essayist and editor, as well as a journalist and playwright.
Claude-Hélène Mayer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

When the reaper becomes a salesman: The influence of terror management on product preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present research investigates how consumer choice is affected by Terror Management Theory’s proposition of Mortality Salience increasing one’s cultural worldview defense and self-esteem striving.
O'Dwyer, C.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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