McGregor Ian, Gailliot Matthew T, Vasquez Noelia A, Nash Kyle A
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2007 Nov;33(11):1587-99. doi: 10.1177/0146167207306280. Epub 2007 Aug 24.
After a mortality salience manipulation, participants completed measures of either ideological zeal (Study 1) or personal project zeal (Study 3). Mortality salience increased both kinds of zeal but only among participants with high self-esteem. High self-esteem was positively correlated with dispositional tendencies toward promotion focus, action orientation, and behavioral activation; it was negatively correlated with behavioral inhibition and rumination (Study 2). These findings clarify the role of dispositional self-esteem in mortality salience research and confirm that, as has been found with various other threats, zealous reactions to mortality salience are most pronounced among participants with high self-esteem. Results support a regulatory focus perspective on zealous reactions to threat. Ideological and personal zeal reflect motivated promotion focus reactions that are rewarding because they decrease the motivational relevance, regulatory fit, and subjective salience of threats.
在进行死亡凸显操纵后，参与者完成了意识形态热情（研究1）或个人项目热情（研究3）的测量。死亡凸显增加了这两种热情，但仅在高自尊的参与者中如此。高自尊与促进聚焦、行动导向和行为激活的倾向性呈正相关；与行为抑制和反刍呈负相关（研究2）。这些发现阐明了特质自尊在死亡凸显研究中的作用，并证实，正如在其他各种威胁中所发现的那样，对死亡凸显的热情反应在高自尊的参与者中最为明显。结果支持了对威胁的热情反应的调节焦点观点。意识形态和个人热情反映了有动机的促进聚焦反应，这种反应是有回报的，因为它们降低了威胁的动机相关性、调节适配性和主观显著性。
