Mortality Salience Increases Belief in a Just World but Not Schadenfreude
in Response to a Natural Disaster Affecting a Religious Out-group

Bassett, Jonathan F.; Cate, Kelly L.

doi:10.2174/1874350101407010064

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“…Belief in a just world is a vigorous personal coping source that helps individuals to cope with stressful life events and it is related to uncertainty feelings, psychological distress, depression and anxiety in a negative way, and future orientation in a positive way (Carifio & Nasser, 2012;Otto et al, 2006;Xie et al, 2011). In addition, a study testing TMT and belief in a just world shows that belief in a just world increases after mortality salience (Bassett & Cate, 2014). Contrary to the above-listed findings, in this study, the results showed that belief in a just world does not function as a buffer against anxiety.…”

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“…Some of the other variables are belief in a just world (Bassett & Cate, 2014), self-esteem (Aslıtu¨rk, 2001;Harmon-Jones et al, 1997;Leary, 2004;Schmeichel et al, 2009), and religiosity (Aksu¨t-Ç ic¸ek, 2008;Jonas & Fischer, 2006;Koca-Atabey & € Oner-€ Ozkan, 2011;Vess et al, 2009). In a just world, people get what they deserve.…”

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“…People with belief in a just world think that their good deeds will be rewarded at a specific time in the future (Dalbert & Donat, 2015). A study testing TMT and belief in a just world shows that belief in a just world increases after mortality salience (Bassett & Cate, 2014).…”

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Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory: Mortality Salient and Nonmortality Salient Organizations

Bulut

2020

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To sustain their lives has always been the main motivation of all the creatures, especially human beings. Just as there is always beginning of life, there is also an end of it for all living species. Human being is the only species that is aware of their mortality. According to terror management theory (TMT), this awareness causes some sort of anxiety. Human being, by their nature, do not want to be worried and want to cope with the anxiety in different ways. This study aims to test belief in a just world, religious worldviews, and self-esteem within the framework of TMT hypotheses in both mortality salient ( n = 104) and nonmortality salient ( n = 102) organizations. In each organization, half of the participants were reminded about death (experimental condition) and the other half about toothache (control condition). The required data for this study were collected by utilizing Life Satisfaction Scale, The Multidimensional Mortality Awareness Measure, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Belief in a Just World Scale, Self-Esteem Scale, Religious Worldviews Scale, and personal information form. Results indicated that there are no significant differences for self-esteem and religious worldviews between mortality salient and nonmortality salient samples, whereas there are significant mean differences for personal/general belief in a just world. The findings of this study are discussed within the framework of TMT literature.

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Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory: Mortality Salient and Nonmortality Salient Organizations

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2020

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“…Because belief in a just world is a meaning framework, when people experience a meaning threat, they should be more likely to espouse just world beliefs. Consistent with this idea, death reminders coupled with a scenario describing how an earthquake damaged a mosque increased general belief in a just world among Christian participants compared to a control condition (Bassett & Cate, 2014). Belief in a just world can also be affirmed through victim blaming.…”

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Meaning and blame: Meaning threats increase victim blaming, but profession and art can diminish it

Martens,

Ayaz,

Ayaz

et al. 2023

Int J Psychol

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Previous work suggests that people have a need for meaning, and that when meaning is threatened, efforts are undertaken to restore a sense of meaning. We hypothesized that a meaning threat (i.e., reminders of death) would increase victim blaming of a domestic violence victim since doing so can restore a sense of meaning—that people get what they deserve—but for those with advanced knowledge of victimology, such as trained counsellors, this effect would be diminished since victim blaming runs counter to their meaning framework that bad things can happen to good people. In addition, because art can provide a sense of meaning, we hypothesized that either creating meaningful art or observing art and finding meaning within it would diminish blaming a domestic violence victim since having a sense of meaning should diminish the need to restore meaning via victim blaming. Over five studies with undergraduate and trained counsellors, we found support for the hypotheses, and a meta‐analysis on the victim blaming effect suggested a small, though significant, effect size of d = .28. These findings enhance our understanding of various factors that affect victim blaming, and they point towards relatively easy to administer interventions to diminish it.

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Construction and Validation of the Belief in Divine Retribution Scale for Pakistani Muslims

Naeem,

Ghayas,

Haider Khan

2024

J Relig Health

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Mortality Salience Increases Belief in a Just World but Not Schadenfreude in Response to a Natural Disaster Affecting a Religious Out-group

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory: Mortality Salient and Nonmortality Salient Organizations

Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory: Mortality Salient and Nonmortality Salient Organizations

Meaning and blame: Meaning threats increase victim blaming, but profession and art can diminish it

Construction and Validation of the Belief in Divine Retribution Scale for Pakistani Muslims

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