CRI 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Terror Management Theory, Identity Crisis
20 Feb 2016
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Can"t last forever manifests itself in a variety of symptoms, e. g. worries, stress. Death acceptance: logical (so be it, positive (better life, negative (life sucks, maybe after is better) Avoidance strategies: protective function, defensive tendency to avoid pain and danger. Approach strategies: primarily re: pursuing a worthwhile life. Orientation (-): defensive stance, cautious (+): confront crisis, create opportunity for growth. Motivated by desire to accomplish life mission. In approach system, two strategies: tmt (terror management theory) Symbolic immortality: attained by living up to/exceeding standards. Primary motive: quest for meaning: mmt (meaning mgt theory) Overcome death anxiety lies in human capacity for meaning making and reconstruction. Life-enhancing (work towards having a better life) and life-expanding (going through. Proactive, transformative confrontation with human condition situations that push you) quest for meaning: enable us to live fully in light of death. Overwhelming pressure, failure to lift off, no pay, no sleep, debt, etc.
