A review of effects of death anxiety on the human brain
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Self-esteem serves as a buffer against death anxiety.
“The literature is replete with evidence that self-esteem serves as a buffer against death anxiety.”
From Relationship between meaning in life and death anxiety in the elderly: self-esteem as a mediator (2019) · cites this paper as [27]
People with low self-esteem tend to experience anxiety in response to death, whereas threats to self-esteem induce death anxiety and defense of self-esteem reduces death anxiety.
“People with low levels of self-esteem tend to experience anxiety in response to death, whereas threats to self-esteem induce death anxiety and defense of self-esteem reduces death anxiety [25–27].”
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BackgroundDeath Anxiety in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
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“On the basis of scienti fi c empiricism it can be stated that people with low self-esteem tend to feel greater death anxiety; furthermore, while a threat to self-esteem can trigger a fear of death, defense of self-esteem in turn reduces the fear of death (Abeyta et al., 2014; Hiyoshi et al., 2017).”
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“When self-esteem is threatened, it is triggered, and is reduced by self-esteem defense (Davis et al., 1983; Hiyoshi et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Hiyoshi, K., Becker, C., Oishi, N., & Fukuyama, H.
- Affiliations
- Kyoto University Hospital (JP)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Hiyoshi, K.
- Venue
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 381
- Pages
- 257
- ISSN
- 0022-510X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2773934294
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- fear of death, terror management theory, existential anxiety, self-esteem, cultural worldview, neural correlates, neuroimaging
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