Oreg Ayelet, Taubman-Ben-Ari Orit
The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Death Stud. 2024 Jul 31:1-14. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2024.2386063.
On 7 October 2023, 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel. Over 1,300 people were killed on that day, and over 240 were abducted to Gaza. On October 8, Israel declared war on Hamas. The current study delves into the prevailing phenomenon of spontaneous war weddings held in military settings during the war. Drawing from Terror Management Theory (TMT) and utilizing an ethnographic approach, we analyze published media reports of these weddings. We suggest that this phenomenon is a sign of three terror management anxiety buffer mechanisms activated in view of current national and personal mortality salience: the validation of cultural worldviews; the enhancement of self-esteem; and the pursuit of proximity, in the form of a sense of closeness to attachment figures. All three anxiety-buffer mechanisms contribute to the fortification of psychological defenses, the denial of death, and the maintenance of psychological equanimity in view of this incomprehensible threat.
2023年10月7日，来自加沙地带的3000名哈马斯恐怖分子潜入以色列。当日有1300多人丧生，240多人被绑架至加沙。10月8日，以色列对哈马斯宣战。当前的研究深入探讨了战争期间在军事环境中举行的自发战地婚礼这一普遍现象。借鉴恐怖管理理论（TMT）并采用人种志方法，我们分析了关于这些婚礼的已发表媒体报道。我们认为，这一现象是鉴于当前国家和个人死亡凸显性而激活的三种恐怖管理焦虑缓冲机制的体现：文化世界观的验证；自尊的增强；以及以与依恋对象的亲近感形式对亲近感的追求。所有这三种焦虑缓冲机制都有助于强化心理防御、否认死亡，并在面对这种难以理解的威胁时维持心理平衡。
