scholarly journals The relationship of death anxiety defense mechanisms in terror management theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Kexin LU ◽  
Xu WANG ◽  
Hong LI
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Associations Between Death Fascination, Death Anxiety and Religion among Polish College Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherman A. Lee ◽  
Jarosław P. Piotrowski ◽  
Joanna Różycka ◽  
Magdalena A. Żemojtel-Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Religious Engagement ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Previous research examining the relationship between religion and attitudes about death have yielded mixed results due to over-simplified conceptualizations of constructs, lack of theory, and an over-reliance on Western samples. To overcome these issues, the present study examined the relationship between three types of religious orientation and two types of death attitudes among a sample of 532 college students in Poland. The results demonstrated unique relations between religion and death attitudes, as well emphasized the importance of considering religious engagement as a moderating variable. Although the results were generally consistent with Terror Management Theory, other theoretical perspectives were considered as well.

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

I Control therefore I am: Effects of Mortality Salience on Control Attributions

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 765-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo B. Willis ◽  
Alejandro Tapia-V ◽  
Rocío Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mechanism Control ◽  
Type Of Failure ◽  
Do So

Terror Management Theory posits that when individuals are faced with their own mortality, they use several defense mechanisms to reduce the existential anxiety caused by the thought of their own death. In this paper, we examined one such mechanism: Control attributions. To do so, we ran an experiment (n = 140) in which we manipulated mortality salience and type of failure (relevant vs. irrelevant consequences) with which participants were faced. Participants were then instructed to evaluate the possible causes of their failure. The results indicated that participants assigned to the mortality salience condition, compared to those assigned to the control group, were more prone to making controllable attributions. That is, even in situations in which individuals are motivated to avoid responsibility (i.e., a relevant failure), mortality salience increased perceived controllability. These results suggest that attributions might serve as a control mechanism to compensate for the sheer uncontrollability of death.

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.

scholarly journals Do Materialistic Consumers Buy More During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Seong-Yuen Toh ◽  
Siew-Wai Yuan ◽  
Ranita Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Relationship Of

This study investigates the mediated moderating relationship of self-concept clarity, materialism, and social consumption motivation in the context of Covid-19 pandemic based on the terror management theory. The findings suggest that Malaysian consumers have high self-concept clarity about their materialistic orientation. This materialistic orientation may be of hedonistic-utilitarian nature that is internally directed for self-satisfaction and not exclusively directed externally in material consumption to portray an image to others. Furthermore, this study posits that cultural factors like collectivism and uncertainty avoidance delimits the applicability of terror management theory in Malaysia, suggesting that the development of the theory draw heavily from Western ideology of individualism not directly relevant in the Asian context. Finally, this study offers an understanding of the self-concept clarity from the Asian context, addressing the the appeal by Dunlop (2017) to investigate the construct of self-concept clarity particularly in non-Western context.

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.

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