Exploring the effects of self-esteem and mortality salience on proximal and distally measured death anxiety: A further test of the dual process model of terror management

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 523-528

  Abeyta, Andrew A ^a   Juhl, Jacob ^b   Routledge, Clay ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death and dying; Death anxiety; Self esteem; Terror management theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903270116     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9400-y     Document Type: Article

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