自尊能缓冲死亡焦虑吗?——自尊对死亡提醒条件下大学生死亡焦虑的影响

Can Self-esteem Buffer Death Anxiety?——The Effect of Self-esteem on Death Anxiety Caused by Mortality Salience

采用2×4两因素组间设计,以168名大学生为被试,考察了自尊对死亡提醒条件下死亡焦虑的影响。结果发现:(1)死亡提醒操作确实唤醒了大学生的死亡焦虑,焦虑平均值为2.28±0.49;(2)支持了西方文化背景下提出的自尊缓冲死亡焦虑的假设,即死亡提醒条件下,自尊越高,死亡焦虑越低,说明自尊对死亡焦虑的缓冲作用是一种普遍心理现象。

Using a 2×4 between-subject design of two factors and 168 undergraduates as subjects, we investigated the effect of self-esteem on death anxiety caused by mortality salience. It showed that: (1) the operation of mortality salience did raise the death anxiety of those undergraduates, the mean score of anxiety was 2.28±0.49; (2) the hypothesis that self-esteem can buffer death anxiety proposed in the western cultural context was supported, i.e. under the condition of mortality salience, the higher the level of self-esteem, the less the death anxiety, an indication that the function of self-esteem's buffering death anxiety was a common psychological phenomenon.