A psychosocial evaluation about the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the terror management theory
Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2020 Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, human beings were faced with a feeling of terror that they could not prevent, could not be protected, and were desperate. While trying to deal with the threat they faced, they resorted to many inappropriate ways. Some
Süheyla Ünal
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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 +3 more
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A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2008 According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an ...
Arndt, A. +3 more
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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 +1 more
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Consequences of information covering the COVID-19 pandemic from the point of view of Terror Management Theory [PDF]
E3S 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
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From the Grave to the Cradle: Evidence That Mortality Salience Engenders a Desire for Offspring. [PDF]
, 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
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An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes
Social 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
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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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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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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 ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
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