Abstract

The current study aims to examine the effects of mortality salience effects on worldview defense in an offline and online setting. Participants were 146 (66 offline and 80 online) Singaporeans. Participants were randomly assigned to either the mortality salience condition or the control condition and after a delay completed a Worldview Defense Assessment. No significant mortality salience effects on worldview defense occurred in either setting. The results might be explained by the Asian sample, Singapore’s culture of tolerance, and data collection during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Future research directions include examining the effects of COVID-19 in activating worldview defense.

摘要

目前的研究旨在检查死亡率显着效应对离线和在线环境中世界观防御的影响。参与者是 146 名（66 名线下和 80 名线上）新加坡人。参与者被随机分配到死亡率显着条件或控制条件，并在延迟后完成世界观防御评估。在这两种情况下，都没有发生对世界观防御的显着死亡率显着性影响。亚洲样本、新加坡的宽容文化以及 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行期间的数据收集可以解释这一结果。未来的研究方向包括检查 COVID-19 在激活世界观防御中的作用。