Values and sense of symbolic immortality among non-religious adolescents in Poland
Submission date: 2014-08-17
Final revision date: 2014-10-04
Acceptance date: 2014-10-06
Online publication date: 2014-10-23
Publication date: 2014-10-23
Current Issues in Personality Psychology 2014;2(3):171-176
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Background
The aim of the study was to determine the values (Schwartz’s ten basic values) and sense of symbolic immortality among non-religious adolescents.
Participants and procedure
Participants were recruited from secondary schools in Gdansk and Gdynia.
Results
The results showed that non-religious adolescents achieved higher results in the natural mode, and lower in biological-creative and religious modes. They also scored higher on universalism and self-direction subscales of Schwartz’s ten basic values. The results are discussed in the light of humanistic personal ideology and terror management theory.
Conclusions
The cultural worldview that protects non-religious adolescents against death anxiety seems to be more rooted in humanistic and individualistic values.
The aim of the study was to determine the values (Schwartz’s ten basic values) and sense of symbolic immortality among non-religious adolescents.
Participants and procedure
Participants were recruited from secondary schools in Gdansk and Gdynia.
Results
The results showed that non-religious adolescents achieved higher results in the natural mode, and lower in biological-creative and religious modes. They also scored higher on universalism and self-direction subscales of Schwartz’s ten basic values. The results are discussed in the light of humanistic personal ideology and terror management theory.
Conclusions
The cultural worldview that protects non-religious adolescents against death anxiety seems to be more rooted in humanistic and individualistic values.
REFERENCES (17)
1.
Cieciuch, J. (2013). Kształtowanie się struktury i hierarchii wartości od dzieciństwa do wczesnej dorosłości [Development of value structure and hierarchy from childhood to early adulthood]. Warszawa: Liberi Libri.
2.
CBOS (2009, March). Wiara i religijność Polaków dwadzieścia lat po rozpoczęciu przemian. Komunikat z badań [Faith and religiosity of Poles after twenty years of transformation. Survey report]. Retrieved from: http://www.cbos.pl/SPISKOM.POL... 2009/K_034_09.PDF.
3.
Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Ransom, S., Sheldon, K. M., van Knippenberg, A., & Janssen, J. (2003). Literal and symbolic immortality: The effect of evidence of literal immortality on self-esteem striving in response to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 722-737. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.722.
4.
de St. Aubin, E. (1996). Personal ideology polarity: Its emotional foundation and its manifestation in individual value systems, religiosity, political orientation, and assumptions concerning human nature. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 152-165. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.1.152.
5.
Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Symbolic immortality and the management of the terror of death. The moderating role of attachment style. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 725-734.
6.
Greenberg, J., Simon, L., & Pyszczynski, T. (1992). Terror management and tolerance: Does mortality salience always intensify negative reactions of others who threaten one’s worldview? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 212-220.
7.
Heine, S. J., Proulx, T., & Vohs, K. D. (2006). The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the coherence of social motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 88-110.
8.
Koole, S. E., & van den Berg, A. E. (2004). Paradise lost and reclaimed: a motivational analysis of human-nature relations. In: J. Greenberg, S. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 86-103). New York: Guilford Press.
9.
Landau, M., Johns, M., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Martens, A., Goldenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2004). A Function of Form: Terror Management and Stucturing the Social World. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 190-210.
10.
Landau, M., Greenberg, J., & Kosloff, S. (2010). Coping with life’s one uncertainty: a terror management perspective on the existentially uncertain self. In: R. Arkin, K. Oleson, & P. Carroll (eds.), Handbook of the uncertain self. New York: Psychology Press.
11.
Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Martens, A. (2006). Windows into nothingness: Terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 879-892.
13.
Matthews, R. C., & Kling, K. (1988). Self transcendence, time perspective and prosocial behavior. Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 17, 4-24.
14.
Saroglou, V., Delpierre, V., & Dernelle, R. (2004). Values and religiosity: A meta-analysis of studies using Schwartz’s model. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 721-734. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.10.005.
15.
Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theoretical Advances and empirical tests in 20 countries. In: M. Zanna (ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 25, pp. 1-65). London: Academic Press.
16.
Schwartz, S. H., Melech, G., Lehmann, A., Burgess, S., Harris, M., & Owens, V. (2001). Extending the cross-cultural validity of the theory of basic human values with a different method of measurement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 519-542.
17.
Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2000). Pride and prejudice. Fear of death and social behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 200-204.
Copyright: © Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
Share
RELATED ARTICLE
| eISSN: | 2353-561X |
| ISSN: | 2353-4192 |
We process personal data collected when visiting the website. The function of obtaining information about users and their behavior is carried out by voluntarily entered information in forms and saving cookies in end devices. Data, including cookies, are used to provide services, improve the user experience and to analyze the traffic in accordance with the Privacy policy. Data are also collected and processed by Google Analytics tool (more).
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
