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Relationship between age and death anxiety |
older people report lower levels of death anxiety then younger adults |
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gender differences in death anxiety |
-men are less willing to admit they have a fear of death -women's greater role in caring for the sick and dying - women may be more tied to their physical bodies making it more difficult to deny their morality. |
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Wink & Scott (2005) finding religion and fear of death |
moderately religious people were more anxious than low and high religious people |
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Relationship between self-esteem, self actualization, and death anxiety |
- Death anxiety is negatively correlated with self-esteem -more self actualization, the less death anxiety -the more satisfied one is with their life, the less death anxiety they'll have |
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correlation between risk taking and death anxiety |
- little empirical evidence between death anxiety and risky behavior - there is evidence that the reminder of mortality will increase risky behavior but self esteem is weighed heavily |
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evolutionary perspective on disgust |
emerged as a response to sensory properties of stimuli that signaled harm and promote survival |
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psycho dynamic perspective on disgust |
concerns about contamination of the soul |
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5 coping processes |
-life review: reflection on accomplishments of the past - life planning: assess the goals - identification with ones culture: how you fit in with your culture - generative process: start worrying about other generations -self detachment: break away from yourself |
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5 attitudes measured by death attitude profile revised |
-fear of death: anxiety about death -death avoidance: try not to think about it - neutral acceptance: stoic resignation - escape acceptance: release from suffering -approach acceptance: passage to a better existence |
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Intrinsic and extrinsic religion |
-intrinsic religion: people use their religion as a way of living -extrinsic religion : people use their religion as means to an end (people have more anxiety) |
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Defensive and existential religion |
-defense: faith deployed to avoid or minimize existential predicaments -existential: belief that faith is just hope, not knowledge |
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4 categories of religious beliefs |
4 categories: -literal inclusion: people define their selves as religious in different way such as close minded -literal exclusion: rejects a positive religious reality with strict arguments - symbolic inclusion: being open minded symbolic exclusion: non religious and less judgement toward religious people |
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2 dimensions of religious beliefs |
-literal vs symbolic
-inclusion vs exclusion |
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results of the four categories of religious beliefs |
-literal inclusion and symbolic exclusion were negatively correlated as were literal exclusion and symbolic inclusion - literal inclusion was positively correlated with fear of death and death avoidance -literal exclusion: positive correlated with fear of death and death avoidance was negatively correalted |
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3 testable hypothesis from TMT |
-The mortality salience hypothesis: reminders of personal death should strengthen the psychological buffer against death anxiety - The anxiety buffer hypothesis: damaging buffer against death anxiety makes people prone to existential terror |
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2 components of psychological buffer against death anxiety |
-self esteem -cultural world view |
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proximal and distant defenses |
proximal: thought suppression distant: symbolic protection by allowing people to think they are valuable contributors |
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how mortality salience effects Japanese and America |
-Japanese students evaluated personal success -American students showed an increase in liking for those who praise American and decrease in liking for those who criticize America |
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Cultural worldview is to allow different individuals to look at or perceive the world as orderly |
concept of culture view of tmt |
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if you have a good life style, are a good person, your culture would help manage death anxiety people defend their world through derogation, assimilation , accommodation , and annihilation |
Hope people defend their culture concept |
