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Bicultural Terror Management: Identity Hybridity Moderates the Effect of Mortality Salience on Biculturals’ Familiarity Versus Novelty Seeking Tendency

Zhang, Rui, Schimel, Jeff, Faucher, Erik H.·2014·Self and Identity

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Terror management theory (TMT) shows that familiarity and novelty seeking are two distinct ways of deriving meaning. In the present research, we applied this analysis to individuals with two cultural backgrounds. Three studies examined whether these two divergent responses to mortality salience (MS) correspond with varying degrees of identity hybridity among biculturals. Following MS, low hybridity led to more familiarity seeking in the form of a stronger need for structure (Study 1) and less novelty seeking in the form of reduced willingness to explore (Study 2). In contrast, high hybridity tended to lead to the opposite following MS, particularly heightened interest in educational programs that facilitate exploration (Study 3). Results further clarified that these effects occurred only if bicultural identity was primed first (Study 1) and that they could not be reduced to broad personality traits (Study 2 and 3). We conclude by discussing the implications of expanding TMT's critical insight into the conflictual side of intergroup contact in the globalized world to the hitherto unexplored side of biculturalism.

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  • Mortality salience led individuals with low hybridity to seek cultural familiarity, while it led individuals with greater hybridity (e.g., bicultural identities) to seek novel cultural experiences.

    “Indeed, whereas MS led individuals with low hybridity to seek cultural familiarity, it led individuals with greater hybridity (e.g., people with bicultural identities) to seek novel cultural experiences [110].”

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Authors
Zhang, R., Schimel, J., & Faucher, E. H.
Affiliations
University of Alberta (CA)
Corresponding author
Zhang, Rui
Venue
Self and Identity
Published
2014-06-30
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
714-739
ISSN
  • 1529-8868 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-8876
OpenAlex
W2160284292
Cited by
7
References
99
Citations by year
2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 1
FWCI
1.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Self and Identity (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Keywords
terror management theory, biculturalism, hybrid identity, mortality salience, novelty seeking, intergroup contact, need for structure, meaning-making

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