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From mortality to connectedness
| Title: | From mortality to connectedness: an experimental study of affiliation, punitiveness, and mood. |
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| Name(s): |
Rosenzweig, Garreth. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Thesis | |
| Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
| Date Issued: | 2007 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
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| Extent: | iv, 57 leaves : ill. (some col.). | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Terror Management Theory posits that induced death-related cognitions lead to anxiety. To relieve anxiety, individuals may bolster their self-esteem or current cultural worldviews. The current study hypothesizes that induced thoughts of social connectedness will be an anxiety-buffering mechanism that will reduce the need to defend one's worldview. Participants watched one of two films which were intended to either induce social connectedness or have no effect on the individual. Each participant watched a short film clip then completed measures pertaining to moral transgressions, affiliative and agentic extraversion, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect. Females who were high on affiliation were found to defend their worldviews more often than males high on affiliation following the social connectedness induction. The experimental (42-Up) condition showed lower levels of punitiveness than the control (K-Web) condition. | |
| Identifier: | 314394247 (oclc), 11602 (digitool), FADT11602 (IID), fau:1334 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Garreth Rosenzweig. Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2007. Bibliography: leaves 33-36. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Experience -- Psychological aspects Interpersonal relations Affect (Psychology) Mortality salience Terror management theory |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11602 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
