TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Failure causes fear: the effect of self-esteem threat on death-anxiety
JO  - Journal of social psychology
A1  - Routledge, Clay D.
SP  - 665
EP  - 669
VL  - 152
IS  - 6
N2  - According to terror management theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, 1986), self-esteem protects people from anxiety associated with the knowledge of certain mortality. A number of studies provide evidence consistent with this assertion, but no studies have experimentally examined the effect of threatened self-esteem on death-anxiety. In the current study, self-esteem was manipulated and death-anxiety measured. A self-esteem threat increased death-anxiety relative to a self-esteem boost and non-self threat control condition.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -