https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5243-1481
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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.
Notes
1 Given the differences between the offline and online participants, a 2(Condition: Mortality Salience vs. Control) × 2(Setting: Offline vs. Online) MANCOVA was conducted with time spent, number of words written, positive affect, and negative affect as covariates, and the two worldview defense scores (author and content) as the dependent variables. There was no significant interaction effect between condition and setting. There were also no significant main effects for condition and setting.