Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion

Arrowood, Robert B.; Jong, Jonathan; Vail, Kenneth E.; Hood, Ralph W.

doi:10.1080/2153599x.2018.1411636

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“…And do MS effects differ depending on the age or cultural background of the subject (e.g., religious beliefs)? In theory, religion serves an anxiety buffering function where awareness of death is primed (Arrowood et al, 2018). However it goes without saying that not all religions are the same and those that do not emphasise concepts such as a just worldleaving this to the hereaftermay not serve this function (Bulut, 2021).…”

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Mortality Awareness: New Directions

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Thinking about our own death and its salience in relation to decision making has become a fruitful area of multidisciplinary research across the breadth of psychological science. By bringing together experts from philosophy, cognitive and affective neuroscience, clinical and computational psychiatry we have attempted to set out the current state of the art and point to areas of further enquiry. One stimulus for doing this is the need to engage with policy makers who are now having to consider guidelines on suicide and assisted suicide so that they may be aware of their own as well as the wider populations’ cognitive processes when confronted with the ultimate truth of mortality.

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Mortality Awareness: New Directions

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“…Cox and Arrowood (2018) argued that religion serves an anxiety buffering function in the situations of death awareness. Also, religion offers people immortality, and it is clear that religion manages the terror of death (Arrowood et al., 2018).…”

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Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory: Mortality Salient and Nonmortality Salient Organizations

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2020

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To sustain their lives has always been the main motivation of all the creatures, especially human beings. Just as there is always beginning of life, there is also an end of it for all living species. Human being is the only species that is aware of their mortality. According to terror management theory (TMT), this awareness causes some sort of anxiety. Human being, by their nature, do not want to be worried and want to cope with the anxiety in different ways. This study aims to test belief in a just world, religious worldviews, and self-esteem within the framework of TMT hypotheses in both mortality salient ( n = 104) and nonmortality salient ( n = 102) organizations. In each organization, half of the participants were reminded about death (experimental condition) and the other half about toothache (control condition). The required data for this study were collected by utilizing Life Satisfaction Scale, The Multidimensional Mortality Awareness Measure, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Belief in a Just World Scale, Self-Esteem Scale, Religious Worldviews Scale, and personal information form. Results indicated that there are no significant differences for self-esteem and religious worldviews between mortality salient and nonmortality salient samples, whereas there are significant mean differences for personal/general belief in a just world. The findings of this study are discussed within the framework of TMT literature.

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