@article{ref1,
title="To die for a cause but not for a companion: attachment-related variations in the terror management function of self-sacrifice",
journal="Journal of personality and social psychology",
year="2019",
author="Caspi-Berkowitz, Nesia and Mikulincer, Mario and Hirschberger, Gilad and Ein-Dor, Tsachi and Shaver, Phillip R.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In 8 studies, we examined the terror management function of self-sacrifice and the moderating role of attachment orientations. Studies 1-5 focused on readiness to self-sacrifice for a cause, whereas Studies 6-8 focused on self-sacrifice to save a relationship partner's life. In Studies 1-3 and 6, we examined whether mortality salience increases readiness to self-sacrifice. In Studies 4-5 and 7-8, we examined the defensive nature and anxiety-buffering role of self-sacrifice-that is, whether providing another terror management defense reduces the readiness to self-sacrifice following mortality salience and whether thoughts about self-sacrifice mitigate death-thought accessibility. <br><br>FINDINGS indicated that self-sacrifice for a cause served a terror management function mainly among attachment-anxious participants, whereas self-sacrifice for a relationship partner served this defensive function mainly among participants scoring low on avoidant attachment. Attachment-avoidant participants reacted to mortality salience with reluctance to self-sacrifice for another person. <br><br>DISCUSSION focuses on attachment orientation as a basis for using self-sacrifice as an existential defense. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3514",
doi="10.1037/pspi0000172",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000172"
}