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Citation

Routledge CD. J. Soc. Psychol. 2012; 152(6): 665-669.

Affiliation

North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA. Clay.Routledge@ndsu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23057187

Abstract

According to terror management theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, 1986), self-esteem protects people from anxiety associated with the knowledge of certain mortality. A number of studies provide evidence consistent with this assertion, but no studies have experimentally examined the effect of threatened self-esteem on death-anxiety. In the current study, self-esteem was manipulated and death-anxiety measured. A self-esteem threat increased death-anxiety relative to a self-esteem boost and non-self threat control condition.


Language: en

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