An existentialist view on mortality salience effects: Personal hardiness, death-thought accessibility, and cultural worldview defence
Authors: Florian V.1; Mikulincer M.1; Hirschberger G.1
Source: British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 40, Number 3, September 2001 , pp. 437-453(17)
Publisher: British Psychological Society
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Abstract:
Two studies examined the possible moderating role of hardiness on reactions to mortality salience inductions. A sample of 240 Israeli undergraduate students completed a hardiness scale, were exposed to a mortality salience or control induction, and then either rated the severity and punishment of 10 social transgressions (Study 1, N = 120) or performed a word-stem completion task, which tapped the accessibility of death-related thoughts (Study 2, N = 120). Results indicated that a mortality salience induction led to more severe judgments of social transgressions as well as to more severe punishments than a control induction only among participants scoring low in the hardiness scale. However, a mortality salience induction led to a higher cognitive accessibility of death-related thoughts than a control condition regardless of participants' hardiness scores. The discussion emphasizes the importance of considering inner resources when examining reactions to mortality reminders.Language: English
Document Type: Research article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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