Prosocial Attitudes toward Money from Terror Management Perspective: Death Transcendence through Spirituality

Figures & data

Table 1. Means, standard deviations, and correlations of main the continuous variables (Study 1).

	M (SD)	1	2	3
1 Money is important	4.88 (0.59)	_
2 Money represents success	4.31 (0.70)	0.35***	_
3 Money is a motivator	4.81 (0.62)	0.59***	0.48***	_
4 I want to be rich	4.90 (0.64)	0.73***	0.37***	0.63***

Note. ***p < 0.001.

Figure 1. The interaction of mortality salience by spirituality on the love of money scale (LOMS) in Study 1.

Figure 2. The interaction of mortality salience by spirituality on prosocial spending (Unit: Chinese Yuan) in Studies 2 and 3.

Table 2. Hierarchical regressions of mortality salience, spirituality, donation context and their interactions on prosocial donations (Study 3).

							95%CI
	Variables	R^2	$\mathrm{\Delta }$R^2	B	SE	t	Lower	Upper
Model 1	Sex	0.03	0.03	29.85	26.67	1.12	−22.9	82.6
	Age			−6.05	3.83	−1.58	−13.6	1.5
	Family income			0.001	0.001	0.58	−0.002	0.003
	Religiosity			−10.70	31.48	−0.34	−72.95	51.55
Model 2	MS	0.05	0.03	8.45	24.83	0.34	−40.7	57.6
	Context			−33.34	24.88	−1.34	−82.6	15.9
	Spirituality			46.67	32.84	1.42	−18.3	111.6
Model 3	MS × Context	0.12	0.07	−5.70	24.42	−0.23	−54.0	42.6
	MS × Spirituality			−87.01	31.42	−2.77**	−149.2	−24.9
	Context × Spirituality			46.91	30.94	1.52	−14.3	108.1
Model 4	MS × Spirituality × Context	0.14	0.02	55.36	31.18	1.77^†	−6.3	117.0

Note. 1.^†p < 0.10, **p < 0.01.

2.Sex: female = −1, male = 1; Religiosity: non-religious = −1, religious = 1.

Table 3. Means and standard deviations of personal and prosocial spending (unit: Chinese Yuan) in different mortality salience and spirituality conditions (Study 4).

		Mortality Salience Condition		Control Condition
		M	SD	M	SD
Prosocial Spending	Spirituality	974.57	528.83	1060.00	527.09
	Happiness	1250.00	624.25	922.76	643.75
Personal Spending	Spirituality	3407.14	921.00	3450.00	712.44
	Happiness	3125.71	873.16	3217.24	1111.64