@article{ref1,
title="Cultural management of terror and worry during the CoViD-19 pandemic: how religiosity and a dream of human solidarity help the Polish people cope",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2021",
author="Gut, Arkadiusz and Miciuk, Łukasz and Gorbaniuk, Oleg and Gut, Przemysław and Karczmarczyk, Anna",
volume="12",
number="",
pages="e790333-e790333",
abstract="The COVID-19 pandemic, which involves the threat of contracting a potentially fatal disease, can be understood as a source of terror. According to terror management theory, people shield themselves from terror by adopting culturally specific worldviews and protecting self-esteem. The study investigates the protective role of worldviews that are culturally specific to Poles: religiosity and social solidarity. The hypothesis was that Poles who tend to worry, entertain these worldviews and are more likely to maintain high self-esteem and concentrate on the current moment (carpe diem), which theoretically allows them to reduce future-related anxiety. Path analysis confirmed that self-esteem, the centrality of religiosity, and expectation of solidarity due to the COVID-19 pandemic mediate the relationship between the worry trait and carpe diem.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2021.790333",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.790333"
}