Rochester Institute of Technology.
J Soc Psychol. 2020 Sep 2;160(5):644-657. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2020.1726858. Epub 2020 Feb 12.
In 2015, the Chinese government officially abolished the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. However, the voluntary donor registration rate among the Chinese population is approximately 2% as of January 2020. Guided by self-affirmation theory and terror management theory, the present investigation examined a number of variables that may be related to donor registration intentions and a method to mitigate death thoughts and misconceptions. An online experiment was conducted in which 352 Chinese participants were randomly assigned to either a self-affirmation (i.e., affirming values that are important to the participants) or a no-affirmation condition. Results revealed that self-affirmation lowered death thoughts among the participants, which in turn were positively related to organ donation misperceptions. Inconsistent with terror management theory, the level of death thoughts was not directly related to participants' intentions to register as organ donors. Instead, the relationship between the two was mediated by misperceptions toward organ donation.
2015 年，中国政府正式废除了从已处决囚犯身上摘取器官的做法。然而，截至 2020 年 1 月，中国人口中的自愿器官捐献登记率约为 2%。本研究以自我肯定理论和死亡恐惧管理理论为指导，考察了一些可能与捐献者登记意愿相关的变量，以及一种减轻死亡恐惧和误解的方法。本研究进行了一项在线实验，其中 352 名中国参与者被随机分配到自我肯定（即肯定对参与者重要的价值观）或非自我肯定条件下。结果表明，自我肯定降低了参与者的死亡恐惧，而死亡恐惧又与器官捐献的误解呈正相关。与死亡恐惧管理理论不一致的是，死亡恐惧的程度与参与者登记成为器官捐献者的意愿没有直接关系。相反，两者之间的关系是由对器官捐献的误解来介导的。
