Yaakobi Erez
School of Management, Ono Academic College, <location>Israel</location>
Exp Psychol. 2015;62(2):110-22. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000278.
Four studies were conducted to examine the death anxiety buffering function of work as a terror management mechanism, and the possible moderating role of culture. In Study 1, making mortality salient led to higher reports of participants' desire to work. In Study 2, activating thoughts of fulfillment of the desire to work after mortality salience reduced the accessibility of death-related thoughts. In Study 3, activating thoughts of fulfillment of the desire to work reduced the effects of mortality salience on out-group derogation. In Study 4, priming thoughts about obstacles to the actualization of desire to work led to greater accessibility of death-related thoughts. Although two different cultures with contrasting work values were examined, the results were consistent, indicating that the desire to work serves as a death anxiety buffer mechanism in both cultures.
开展了四项研究，以检验工作作为一种恐惧管理机制的死亡焦虑缓冲功能，以及文化可能起到的调节作用。在研究1中，凸显死亡会导致参与者报告更高的工作意愿。在研究2中，在凸显死亡后激活对工作愿望实现的想法，会降低与死亡相关想法的可及性。在研究3中，激活对工作愿望实现的想法，会减少凸显死亡对对外群体诋毁的影响。在研究4中，启动对工作愿望实现障碍的思考，会导致与死亡相关想法的可及性增强。尽管研究考察了具有不同工作价值观的两种不同文化，但结果是一致的，表明工作愿望在两种文化中均作为一种死亡焦虑缓冲机制发挥作用。
