The body as a source of self-esteem
The effect of mortality salience on identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoring
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5832085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie L Goldenberg (0000-0003-0097-094X, University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Shannon K Mccoy (University of California, Santa Barbara), Selina Mccoy (0000-0001-8774-4018), Tom Pyszczynski (0000-0003-4008-3384, University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Jeff Greenberg (0000-0002-2206-0771), J S Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon (0000-0002-7035-2082), Samuel G Solomon (0000-0001-5321-0288) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-130 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.79.1.118 |
| PMID | 10909882 |
| OpenAlex | W4240857088 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 77 |
| References cited | 53 |
The present research investigated the role of the physical body as a source of self-esteem and tested the hypothesis derived from terror management theory that reminding people of their mortality increases self-esteem striving in the form of identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoring. The results revealed that individuals high in body esteem responded to mortality salience manipulations with increased identification with their physical bodies in Study 1 and with increased interest in sex in Study 2. Study 3 showed that reminders of death led to decreased appearance monitoring among appearance-oriented participants who were low in body esteem. These findings provide insight into why people often go to extreme lengths to meet cultural standards for the body and its appearance
Biological sex · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Human physical appearance · Identification · Identification (biology · Mortality salience · Salience (neuroscience · Self-esteem · Terror management theory · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Media and Psychology Can Partner to Counter Terrorism
In the wake of 9/11
The folk psychology of souls
The Death-Anxiety Buffering Function of Close Relationships
The Scrooge Effect
Greed, Death, and Values
Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory
The Existential Function of Close Relationships
Fleeing the Body
A Time to Tan
The Association Between Sexual Satisfaction and Body Image in Women
Diverging effect of mortality salience on risk taking
Bidirectional relationships of fears related to death and appearance-based rejection with social media addiction in emerging adults
The effect of mortality salience on preferences for experiential creation
How does mortality salience influences personal identity-based consumption? The role of meaning in life
To the Victors Go the Existential Spoils
Profanity
Feeling Queasy about the Incarnation
Being present in the face of existential threat
The Anxiety-Buffering Properties of Cultural and Subcultural Worldviews
The Thrust of the Problem
Desire in the face of death
Life After Loss
A Terror Management Perspective on Ageism
How Does the Covid-19 Pandemic Affect People’s Willingness to Pay for Health in the Short and Long Term? A Longitudinal Study during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic in China
Is It Me or Is It Mine? Body-self Integration as a Function of Self-esteem, Body-esteem, and Mortality Salience
Self-fulfilling objectification in relationships
Exploring cultural differences in women's body weight perception
Existential escape of the bored
On defeating death
Why Do People Need Self-Esteem? A Theoretical and Empirical Review
Social Comparison and Female Adolescents’ Selfie Behaviors
The Role of Death Anxiety and Self-Esteem in Suicide Attitudes
Death and Love Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Righteous violence
The influence of ending temporal landmark on consumers’ tourism activity preference
Predicting College Women’s Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem Based on Rape Experience, Recency, and Labeling
Death Anxiety and Cancer-Related Stigma
Psychological Defenses Against Death Anxiety
Mortality salience reduces tactile attention among people with low body esteem
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The relation between mortality salience, traffic locus of control, and risky driving behavior
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Attitudes Toward Women's Body Hair
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women
Treating Objects like Women
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Generosity, greed, norms, and death – Differential effects of mortality salience on charitable behavior
Fear of death mediates ostracism distress and the moderating role of attachment internal working models
Understanding human ambivalence about sex
Attachment, Self-Esteem, Worldviews, and Terror Management
Trio of terror (pregnancy, menstruation, and breastfeeding)
The siren's call
Derogation and distancing as terror management strategies
Is objectification always harmful? Reactions to objectifying images and feedback as a function of self-objectification and mortality salience
The great escape
Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking
Looking away from death
Uncovering an existential barrier to breast self-exam behavior
An unscathed past in the face of death
The Association Between Body Esteem and Sexual Desire Among College Women
Literal and symbolic immortality
Group Identification under Conditions of Threat
Romantic intimacy and terror management
The anxiety-buffering function of close relationships
To belong or not to belong, that is the question
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory
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A First Course in Factor Analysis
Attention and Self-Regulation
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
The Body Esteem Scale
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Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips
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The appraisal of body-cathexis
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The Psychology of Self-Affirmation
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Public Self and Private Self
Coping with Negative Stereotypes about Intellectual Performance
The Social Self
Personality Moderating Variables
Investigations Into the 'Self‐concept’i. The W‐a‐y Technique
What is beautiful is good, but
Relations of Exercise to Body Image and Sexual Desirability among a Sample of University Students
The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale
Objectification Theory
Physical Attractiveness, Body Image, and Women's Sexual Self-Schema
A Mediational Model Linking Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Disordered Eating
Body image, self-esteem, and depression-proneness
Physical attractiveness and its relationship to sex-role stereotyping
Compensatory self-inflation
Selective exposure to self
Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects
Evidence for terror management theory II
Self-investment and self-esteem
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions
Social comparison after success and failure
Subjective Competence
The role of body image in sexually avoidant behavior
Social stigma and self-esteem
The social construction of reality
Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function
That swimsuit becomes you
Death, sex, love, and neuroticism
When self-presentation is constrained by the target's knowledge
What is beautiful is good
Self-schema and social information processing
An Empirical Investigation of Self-Attitudes
Good-looking people are not what we think
Depression and Body Image Satisfaction
| Unique citing works | 72 |
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| Citations per year | 2,96 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 76 |