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The impact of different procedures to arouse mortality awareness on various worldview dimensions
Author(s) -
Echebarria Echabe Agustin,
Perez Saioa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2144
Subject(s) - terror management theory , psychology , mortality salience , social psychology , construct (python library) , eurocentrism , developmental psychology , xenophobia , identity (music) , personal identity , self , sociology , gender studies , computer science , anthropology , acoustics , programming language , racism , physics
An experimental study was carried out in order to explore two aspects of the terror management theory that have received little attention until now. The first objective was to see whether the different procedures to arouse mortality awareness have the same effects in certain dimensions included within the general construct of ‘worldviews’ (namely, commitment to life‐after‐death beliefs, Eurocentrism and xenophobia, European identity and the importance attached to the family and offspring in personal growth). The second objective was to study the role played by three mediators (emotions, death‐thoughts accessibility and self‐esteem) in the effects of mortality awareness on worldviews. The results revealed that different death reminders influenced different worldview dimensions and that emotions played a major role in the process.