Terror management and meaning: Evidence that the opportunity to defend the worldview in response to mortality salience increases the meaningfulness of life in the mildly depressed.
Previous terror management research has shown that mildly depressed subjects show a greater increase in worldview defense in response to reminders of their mortality than do nondepressed subjects. Because the function of the cultural worldview is to provide a meaningful conception of life, it was hy...
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The University of Arizona.
1995
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187250 |