Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality

Lifshin, Uri; Horner, Dylan E.; Helm, Peter; Solomon, Sheldon; Greenberg, Jeff

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110712

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“…As such, when an employee self-categorizes as an in-group member, the employee is likely to perceive that he or she has trust from other members due to group closure (Welzel and Delhey, 2015). Additionally, when an employee perceives an in-group identity, the employee experiences increases in self-esteem (Lifshin et al, 2021), self-confidence (Barreto et al, 2006) and sense of well-being (Koc et al, 2022). As such, when an employee perceives higher levels of in-group status, he or she is more likely to feel and behave in ways confirming that he or she is treated by other organizational members justly in some way.…”

Section: Effect Of Self-categorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Categorizing you and me: toward a typology of prejudice and justice in the organization

Chou

Barron

Ramser

2023

IJOTB

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PurposeDue to the dominant use of the singular view of the self-categorization process in the literature, this article seeks to develop a typology, from a dyadic categorization perspective, that describes different types of prejudice and justice in the organization based on one's self-categorization and others' categorization of one's self.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop a typology by drawing upon social identity, self-categorization and self-consistency theories.FindingsThe authors propose the following findings. First, the more an individual self-categorizes as an in-group member regardless of how others categorize the individual, the more likely the individual experiences a particular form of justice. Second, the more an individual self-categorizes as an out-group member regardless of how others categorize the individual, the more likely the individual experiences a particular form of prejudice. Finally, based on the dyadic categorization approach, the authors propose four distinct types of prejudice and justice: communal prejudice, self-induced prejudice, fantasized justice and actualized justice.Originality/valueThe authors advance the literature by providing a dyadic categorization view that helps describe employees' experience of prejudice or justice in the organization. Additionally, this article offers some managerial recommendations that help managers actualize true justice in the organization.

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Section: Effect Of Self-categorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Categorizing you and me: toward a typology of prejudice and justice in the organization

Chou

Barron

Ramser

2023

IJOTB

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“…Moreover, people who fulfill their culture's prescribed values, norms, and beliefs enjoy a sense of personal value in a meaningful world, which, from a terror management perspective, is the basis of self‐esteem. Individuals with high self‐esteem enjoy greater protection from death‐related concerns than those with low self‐esteem (for further reading on self‐esteem from a TMT perspective see Lifshin et al, 2022).…”

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Self‐compassion facilitates responsiveness to existential threat: A brief report

Gerber,

Gez,

Anaki

2023

Mental Health Science

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Terror management theory posits that validation of worldview and self‐esteem are primary defense mechanisms in keeping mortal concerns at bay, although potentially leading to the devaluation of others. Self‐compassion is considered a more inclusive defense mechanism. Drawing on preliminary research, we extended a previous investigation regarding the buffering role of self‐compassion within the Terror management theory paradigm. We embedded within a dot‐probe task a continuous death priming together with abstract and concrete threat images. We confirmed among 126 university students that following death priming, self‐compassion facilitated attentional attraction toward concrete threat and avoidance of abstract threat. These findings demonstrate the contribution of self‐compassion in coping simultaneously with different types of attentional threat and has potential to spawn future innovative research.

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“…Therefore, they have a stronger sense of symbolic immortality through the group [ 10 , 14 , 15 ]. By identifying with an ingroup (e.g., community, workplace, leisure activity club), people increase their connection to the world [ 16 ], enhance their symbolic immortality, and relieve their death anxiety [ 17 , 18 ]. Hence, from TMT’s perspective, people’s identification with the ingroup is closely related to its buffering against and alleviation of death anxiety.…”

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“…Researchers believe that high self-esteem helps suppress death constructs after experiences of mortality salience [ 19 , 20 , 21 ]. It also reduces anxiety and concerns about death [ 18 , 22 ]. Numerous empirical studies have repeatedly confirmed self-esteem as a defense mechanism against death anxiety.…”

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The Effect of Group Identification on Death Anxiety: The Chain Mediation Role of Close Relationships and Self-Esteem

Xiao

Zhao

Zheng

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Based on the terror management theory (TMT), this study integrated self-esteem and close relationships to explore the effects of group identification on death anxiety. Five hundred and four participants completed the Death Anxiety, Rosenberg Self-Esteem, Social Identity, and Inclusion of Other in the Self scales via online platforms. There were significant correlations among group identification, close relationship, self-esteem, and death anxiety. Group identification had a significant negative predictive effect on death anxiety. Specifically, group identification affects death anxiety through two pathways: the separate mediating role of self-esteem and the serial mediation pathway of close relationships → self-esteem. Our study provides direct evidence that group identification relieves death anxiety. The results showed that the alleviating function of group identification was mediated by self-esteem and close relationships. This study provides a new perspective concerning TMT as a defense mechanism against death anxiety.

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Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Categorizing you and me: toward a typology of prejudice and justice in the organization

Categorizing you and me: toward a typology of prejudice and justice in the organization

Self‐compassion facilitates responsiveness to existential threat: A brief report

The Effect of Group Identification on Death Anxiety: The Chain Mediation Role of Close Relationships and Self-Esteem

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