TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: alternative implicit death anxiety measures
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Naidu, Priyanka A.
A1  - Hine, Trevor J.
A1  - Glendon, A. Ian
SP  - 1706
EP  - 1715
VL  - 46
IS  - 7
N2  - The efficacy of different implicit death anxiety measures was examined. In Study 1 (N = 133), the death-word-fragment task (DWFT), commonly used to test death-thought accessibility in terror management theory (TMT) research, did not differentiate between mortality salience (MS) and control conditions. Instead, death-related word completions were associated with word dimensions other than MS induction. Study 2 (N = 155) tested three implicit measures (lexical-decision task, dot-probe task, ambiguous pictures task), which differentiated between conditions, revealing greater sensitivity than the DWFT. As TMT research widens its scope, investigating measures to capture implicit death concerns is important.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1846228
ID  - ref1
ER  -