When death is not a problem: Regulating implicit negative affect under mortality salience

Lüdecke, Christina; Baumann, Nicola

doi:10.1111/sjop.12243

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“…More action-oriented individuals should have less ruminative thoughts, show more action initiation towards specific goals, and higher persistence in goal pursuit than more state-oriented persons (see Kuhl, 1994a). Indeed, action-state orientation assessed with the ACS-90 advanced the understanding of individual differences in many areas, such as ADHD symptoms (Edel et al, 2009), language learning (MacIntyre & Blackie, 2012), memory processes (Kaschel et al, 2017;Kaschel & Kazén, 2018), creativity (Weinzimmer et al, 2011), goal-striving (Koole et al, 2012;Schlinkert & Koole, 2018), and affect-regulation (Kazén et al, 2015;Landman et al, 2016;Lüdecke & Baumann, 2015)-to name a few. Assessing individual differences in action-state orientation permits better understanding behavioral differences between people.…”

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A French Version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr): Psychometric Properties and Predictive Power

Bouzidi

Gendolla

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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This article presents four studies. Study 1 reports the development and psychometric properties of a French version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr) (Kuhl, 1994a)-a frequently used instrument for assessing individual differences in action-state orientation in self-regulation. Studies 2-4 tested the predictive power of the ACS-Fr regarding individuals' ability to escape from rumination, initiate action, and maintain goal-directed behavior-three major components of efficient action control. In Study 1, confirmatory factor analysis revealed a revised three-factor model (with 24 items) fitting the scale's structure well. Regression analyses suggest convergent validity of the ACS-Fr in terms of associations with related self-regulation capacities and problems and a moderate overlap with the Big Five global personality traits. Further speaking for the ACS-Fr validity and its predictive power, we found preliminary evidence that actionoriented individuals ruminated less (Study 2), engaged in action more easily (Study 3), and persisted longer in a cognitive control task (Study 4) than state-oriented people.

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A French Version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr): Psychometric Properties and Predictive Power

Bouzidi

Gendolla

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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“…Moreover, people with low selfesteem showed increased anxiety during distal defense when thoughts of death were outside of focal attention (i.e., assessing anxiety after a delay following MS) [14]. And a negative affect respond to thoughts of death was found on an implicit level [15].…”

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Emotional responses to mortality salience: Behavioral and ERPs evidence

Huang

2021

PLoS ONE

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Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that death-related thoughts activate proximal defense which allows people to suppress or rationalize death awareness. So far there is no direct evidence to support the emotional response in the proximal defense process. The current research aimed to address this issue by examining behavioral (e.g., accuracy and reaction time) and neural responses (e.g., P1 and N400 amplitude) related to emotional arousal following death-related thoughts during proximal defense. Before engaged in emotional words (e.g., anxiety, fear and neutral) judgment task, participants answered questions that referred to emotional and physical changes about death to induce mortality salience (MS). In the control condition, participants received similar instructions concerning the experience of watching TV. Behavioral results showed that longer reaction time of words was seen in control group than MS group. The ERPs results showed that after reminders of death-related thoughts, in condition of MS, fear words elicited larger P1 ERP amplitudes, while the control group did not have this effect, which might reflect that emotional words caused different early attention patterns between MS group and control group. Moreover, compared with control group, larger N400 ERP amplitudes were elicited in condition of MS, suggesting larger cognitive inhibition of words processing caused by emotional reaction. The above results indicate that the early stages after mortality salience will induce fear and anxiety, but soon these negative emotions are suppressed and are at a lower level of accessibility. This result provides electrophysiological evidence for the proximal defense hypothesis of terror management theory.

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“…Помимо картины мира, особенностей самооценки и привязанности, значимым фактором являются навыки саморегуляции. Так, у испытуемых с ориентацией на действия, негативный эффект напоминания о смерти был значительно ниже, чем у лиц, ориентированных на бездействие (Lüdecke, 2015). Напоминание (в том или ином виде) о смерти повышает желание человека работать, а мысли о работе (после такого рода стимула) снижают доступность мыслей о смерти, тогда как мысли о невозможности осуществления работы повышают уровень доступности мыслей о смерти (Yaakobi, 2015).…”

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Theoretical Review of Modern Foreign Studies of Attitude Towards Death

Солдатова¹,

Zhukova²

2018

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The article presents an analysis of the main modern theoretical concepts of attitudes to death. Terror management theory considers the fear of death as a universal phenomenon, the basic motive of human behavior. This approach has developed a dual defensive mechanism against death anxiety: proximal defense as denial, distraction from the problem of death, and distal defense as self-esteem and cultural worldview. Meaning management and death acceptance theory considers the problem of attitude to death in the context of the meaning of life. The conditions and factors of increasing the death-thoughts accessibility and death anxiety were systematized. The consequences of the death anxiety for the personality and human behavior were summarized. The research of attitude to suicide and euthanasia, professional, age and gender differences were considered. The study difficulties of attitude to death were discussed.

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When death is not a problem: Regulating implicit negative affect under mortality salience

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

A French Version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr): Psychometric Properties and Predictive Power

A French Version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr): Psychometric Properties and Predictive Power

Emotional responses to mortality salience: Behavioral and ERPs evidence

Theoretical Review of Modern Foreign Studies of Attitude Towards Death

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