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Religious Fundamentalism and Terror Management

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Friedman, Mike [UCL] Rholes, W. Steven

The study reported herein tested the following hypothesis: Religious fundamentalism can serve a protective function against existential anxiety, such that the need to engage in secular worldview defense when mortality is made salient is reduced for high fundamentalists. The results showed that high fundamentalists engaged in less worldview defense after thinking about their own death versus a control topic. Low fundamentalists, however, engaged in more worldview defense after thinking about their deaths versus a control topic. Exploratory analyses revealed that high fundamentalists' writings about death had a more positive emotional tone and that reactions to the death salience manipulation moderated the impact of fundamentalism on worldview defense. Fundamentalists who saw their deaths in terms of peace and acceptance appeared most protected against terror management concerns.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2008
Language Anglais
Journal information "The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion" - Vol. 18, no. 1, p. 36-52 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd (Abingdon)
issn 1050-8619
e-issn 1532-7582
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
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Bibliographic reference Friedman, Mike ; Rholes, W. Steven. Religious Fundamentalism and Terror Management. In: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 18, no. 1, p. 36-52 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/36018