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Finding the terror that the social self manages: Interdependent self-construal protects against the anxiety engendered by death awareness

Juhl, Jacob, Routledge, Clay·2014·Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
DOI 10.1521/jscp.2014.33.4.365
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Existentialists have theorized that defining one's self in terms of the broader groups to which one belongs (i.e., interdependent self-construal) helps prevent humans' awareness of death from causing anxiety. Consistent with this assertion, research has shown that when death-awareness is experimentally heightened, people's investment in their social groups increases. However, no research has tested the central assertion that high levels of interdependent self-construal attenuate the effect of heightened death-awareness on anxiety. In two experiments, we assessed participants' interdependent self-construal, then experimentally heightened death awareness, and subsequently assessed death anxiety (Study 1) and unspecified anxiety (Study 2). Results showed that heightened death awareness increased death anxiety and unspecified anxiety, but only for those with a low, not high, interdependent self-construal.

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  • Successful terror management strategies help avoid anxiety and maintain one's own psychological peace.

    “One important clarification here is that, at a basic level, successful terror management strategies help avoid anxiety and maintain one's own psychological peace [26,27].”

    From An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes (2015) · cites this paper as [26]

  • Undermining important relationships increases death-thought accessibility, mortality salience increases efforts to enhance close, loving relationships, and incorporating relationships and social structures into one's identity helps prevent anxiety and well-being deficits that otherwise result from the awareness of death.

    “As just a few examples, undermining important relationships increases death-thought accessibility, MS increases efforts to enhance close, loving relationships (e.g., [38]), and incorporating relationships and social structures into one's identity helps prevent anxiety and well-being deficits that otherwise result from the awareness of death [26,89].”

    From An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes (2015) · cites this paper as [26]

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Authors
Juhl, J., & Routledge, C.
Affiliations
University of Southampton (GB)
ORCID
Juhl, Jacob
Venue
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
Publisher
Guilford Publications
Published
2014-04
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
365-379
ISSN
0736-7236 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1521/jscp.2014.33.4.365
OpenAlex
W2063587779
Cited by
9
References
50
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
FWCI
0.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
interdependent self-construal, death awareness, fear of death, existential anxiety, social identity, group identity, terror management theory, social self

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