The Effect of Death Anxiety and Age on Health-Promoting Behaviors: A Terror-Management Theory Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özlem Bozo ◽  
Ayča Tunca ◽  
Yeliz Šimšek
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Health Promoting Behaviors ◽  
Health Promoting

Collective in exile: Utilizing terror management theory to understand women’s wailing performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tova Gamliel
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
Traditional Performance

Although women’s wailing at death rites in various cultures typically amplifies mortality salience, this ritual phenomenon is absent in the research literature on terror management theory (TMT). This study explored Yemenite-Jewish wailing in Israel as an example of how a traditional performance manages death anxiety in a community context. Observations of wailing events and interviews with Yemenite-Jewish wailers and mourners in Israel were analyzed to understand respondents’ perceptions of the experience of wailing as well as the anxiety-oriented psychotherapeutic expertise involved. The findings are discussed to propose an alternative outlook on the intersubjective adaptive value of death anxiety. After describing TMT’s view on the role of culture in coping with death anxiety, I consider the extent to which Yemenite-Jewish wailing is consistent with the premises of TMT.

scholarly journals Social curiosity as a way to overcome death anxiety: perspective of terror management theory

Heliyon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e03556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rani Agias Fitri ◽  
Sali Rahadi Asih ◽  
Bagus Takwin
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory

Role of Social Detachment in Coping With Death Anxiety

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Maheshwari ◽  
Tuheena Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Coping With Death

The present research examines the strength of terror management theory in an indigenous Indian context of religious fair called Magh Mela. It explores how elderly Hindu people deal with death anxiety through practicing Kalpvas in Magh Mela. The research explores the role of social detachment and self-esteem in coping with terror of death. Study 1, a field experiment on 150 Kalpvasis (practitioners of Kalpvas) confirms the significant role of social detachment as an adaptive strategy for coping with death terror. The role of self-esteem did not emerge in the study. Study 2, another field experiment on 62 Kalpvasis confirms results of study 1. Significant role of years of Kalpvas on fear of death shows importance of the religious practices in managing terror related to death. The relation of terror management theory and death anxiety thus follows a different explanation for more indigenous contexts.

Should We Manage Terror—If We Could?

2009 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kastenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Adaptive Responses

Terror Management Theory (TMT) has been revitalizing the traditional study of death anxiety since its introduction in the 1980s. Melding the perspectives of existential philosophy and social science, TMT has stimulated a varied and often creative program of empirical studies. There are methodological limitations to be noted, however, along with a cultural bias, and the neglect of other significant encounters with death in which terror is not the dominant concern. The should or should-not of terror management is viewed from functionalistic and death system as well as TMT perspectives. Suggestions are offered for adaptive responses to primal terror.

Why Does Ingroup Identification Shield People from Death Anxiety?

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 320-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Herrera ◽  
Fabio Sani
Keyword(s):  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Ingroup Identification

Research to date guided by terror management theory has demonstrated that mortality salience increases ingroup identification. However, the process that leads from death reminders to group investment has remained underinvestigated. We tested a model in which mortality salience increased the perceived continuity of the group while at the same time strengthening the perception of group entitativity. In turn, higher perceived group entitativity led to enhanced ingroup identification. Three-path mediation analysis showed that mortality salience transmitted its effects onto ingroup identification indirectly, progressing first through perceived collective continuity and then through ingroup entitativity. Moderated mediation analysis revealed that personal self-esteem and the need for closure did not moderate this effect of mortality salience on ingroup identification.

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