o:14998 Psychological strategies of defence from the fear of death doctoral dissertation Strategije psihološke odbrane od straha od smrti : doctoral dissertation sr In the present study, we set out to explore the psychological strategies engaged to defend oneself from the basic existential insight: the one of the inevitable personal mortality. We wished to examine how young individuals reacted to reminders of mortality and whether these reactions were also related to the socio-cultural context and the important groups they identify with. For these goals, we applied the framework of Terror management theory proposing that people achieve protection from a potentially paralysing fear of death through investing in valued worldviews and maintaining a positive image of themselves as part of these worldviews. Individuals who believe that they are an important part of a meaningful universe can achieve a symbolic transcendence of their inherently mortal nature. We investigated the psychological strategies of defence in a series of five experiments, with a total of 465 participants. After subtle reminders of personal mortality, we investigated whether participants would engage in intensified efforts to enhance and protect the collective self-image stemming from identification with an important group (i.e. the ethnic group; Experiment II) or the individual self-image (Experiment III and IV). We also explored whether the preference for individual vs. collective enhancement would depend on personal value orientations, i.e. the level of individualism/ collectivism of the participants (Experiment V). To provide a more stringent test of the basic tenets of the theory, we compared the effects of mortality reminders to reminders of other existential concerns (i.e. life uncertainty), as well as more everyday concerns of the participants (i.e. exam anxiety). We also investigated the cognitive and affective mediating processes... U aktuelnoj studiji želeli smo da istražimo strategije psihološke odbrane kojima se ljudi služe prilikom suočavanja sa osnovnim egzistencijalnim uvidom: o neizbežnosti lične smrtnosti. Želeli smo da ispitamo kako mlade osobe reaguju na podsetnike na vlastitu smrtnost i da li su ove reakcije povezane sa socio-kulturnim kontekstom i značajnim grupama sa kojima se identifikuju. U ovom cilju, sagledali smo istraživački problem u okvirima teorije upravljanja strahom, koja pretpostavlja da ljudi postižu zaštitu od potencijalno parališućeg straha od smrti kroz ulaganje u vrednovane poglede na svet i očuvanje pozitivne slike o sebi samima, kao delu tih svetova. Osoba koja veruje da je značajan deo smislenog univerzuma, time postiže simboličku transcendenciju vlastite smrtne prirode... Psychology - Social Psychology / Psihologija- Socijalna psihologija Datum odbrane: 25.10.2016. fear of death, terror management theory, individual self-enhancement, collective self-enhancement, ethnic identity, cross-cultural research strah od smrti, teorija upravljanja strahom, individualno samoosnaživanje, kolektivno samo-osnaživanje, etnički identitet, kros-kulturna istraživanja no 527741079 91552101 4739 91552100 527741079 2017-04-06T14:45:28.053Z 45 no 46 mentor Marija M. Branković 2016 63 mentor Iris, 1975- Žeželj 2016 63 član komisije Dragan, 1955- Popadić 2016 63 član komisije Nebojša, 1971- Petrović 2016 63 član komisije Mark Dechesne 2016 305 listova 3302557 http://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:14998 no yes 4 2017-04-06T14:45:28.320Z 70 11 1065898 11 1066001 1066036 fear of death, terror management theory, individual self-enhancement,collective self-enhancement, ethnic identity, cross-cultural research strah od smrti, teorija upravljanja strahom, individualno samoosnaživanje,kolektivno samo-osnaživanje, etnički identitet, kros-kulturna istraživanja 159.9:616.89-008.441(043.3) 1738 11A15 11A1509 2016