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

Acta 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, Xuyun Tan, Cai Xing, Jiaren Zheng   +3 more
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The Great Escape: The Role of Self-esteem and Self-related Cognition in Terror Management [PDF]

, 2015
Integrating terror management theory and objective self-awareness theory, we propose the existential escape hypothesis, which states that people with low self-esteem should be especially prone to escaping self-awareness as a distal response to thoughts
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Albert Camus – A Psychobiographical Approach in Times of Covid-19

Frontiers 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, Claude-Hélène Mayer   +1 more
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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]

, 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 ...
Arnaud Wisman, Heflick N. A., Jetten J., Nathan A. Heflick, Rosenberg M., Sedikides C., Solomon S., Winzeler R. L., Wisman A., Wisman A.   +9 more
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Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety [PDF]

, 2017
Religion has long been speculated to function as a strategy to ameliorate our fear of death. Terror management theory provides two possible causal pathways through which religious beliefs can fulfil this function.
Bluemke, Matthias, Halberstadt, Jamin, Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Jong, Jonathan, Morgenroth, Leila, Poulter, Phoebe   +5 more
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ON THE INFLUENCE OF INSECURITY ON MATERIALISTIC ORIENTATION [PDF]

Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2020
Materialistic orientation has long been related to various aspects of personality development and subjective wellbeing. Literature and research overview provides evidence that a higher level of materialistic orientation is related to increased external ...
V. Todorova
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Coronavirus and Politics: Demands and Values in the Age of the Pandemic

Международная аналитика, 2020
The article discusses the political eff ects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the framework of Terror Management Theory. Growing fears caused by the pandemic provoke mortality salience across the globe.
D. A. Parenkov, K. E. Petrov
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When sex doesn’t sell to men: Mortality salience, disgust and the appeal of products and advertisements featuring sexualized women [PDF]

, 2017
Although men typically hold favorable views of advertisements featuring female sexuality, from a Terror Management Theory perspective, this should be less the case when thoughts of human mortality are salient.
Chun, Seungwoo, Heflick, Nathan, Kim, Heeyoung, Koo, Jieun, Lee, Seon Min, Park, Joon Woo   +5 more
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Distressful Empathy in Reading Literature: The Case for Terror Management Theory? [PDF]

, 2017
This article will investigate the extent to which predictions of Terror Management Theory also hold on reading literature. Indeed, death is ubiquitous in fiction.
Chesnokova, Anna, Springer, Matthias, van Peer, Willie   +2 more
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Investigating the Role of Normative Support in Atheists’ Perceptions of Meaning Following Reminders of Death

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels
Melissa Soenke, Kenneth E. Vail, Jeff Greenberg   +2 more
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