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Religious Fundamentalism and Terror Management: Differences by Interdependent and Independent Self-construal

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Friedman, Mike [UCL] Rholes, W. Steven

Two studies tested the hypothesis that religious fundamentalism and self-construal are associated with systematic differences in death awareness. We hypothesized that, for individuals low in religious fundamentalism, who presumably experience less of an anxiety buffer based on worldview, interdependent self-construal (a sense of the self as encompassing connections to close others) should be associated ivith reduced baseline death awareness-because relational processes may have anxiety buffering/functions. Results from both studies supported this notion, showing that chronic and primed interdependence were associated with reduced death-awareness for loll, fundamentalists. Among persons scoring high on religious fundamentalism levels of death awareness were unrelated to self-construal. These studies suggest that fundamentalism and self-conceptions interact to influence the terror-management process.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2009
Language Anglais
Journal information "Self and Identity" - Vol. 8, no. 1, p. 24-44 (2009)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Psychology Press (Hove)
issn 1529-8868
e-issn 1529-8876
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
Keywords Death-thought accessibility ; Fundamentalism ; Religion ; Self-construal ; Terror management
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Bibliographic reference Friedman, Mike ; Rholes, W. Steven. Religious Fundamentalism and Terror Management: Differences by Interdependent and Independent Self-construal. In: Self and Identity, Vol. 8, no. 1, p. 24-44 (2009)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/36044