Saliencia de la mortalidad y su influencia en motivos identitarios individuales y colectivos: un estudio experimental

• Autores: Sebastián Campos, Agustín Espinosa Pezzia
• Localización: Liberabit, ISSN 1729-4827, ISSN-e 2223-7666, Vol. 22, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Enero - Junio), págs. 67-76
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.24265/liberabit.2016.v22n1.06
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  • Mortality salience and its influence on individual and collective identity motives: An experimental study
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  • español

    La presente investigación busca determinar el impacto de la saliencia de la mortalidad en motivos identitarios individuales y colectivos, como la autoestima, la eficacia, la pertenencia, la distintividad, la continuidad y el significado. Se hipotetizó que la conciencia de la propia muerte potenciaría, a nivel individual y colectivo, los motivos identitarios descritos. A través de un diseño experimental, se encontró que a nivel de identidad individual el grupo experimental (expuesto a la saliencia de la propia mortalidad) mostró puntuaciones marginalmente más elevadas que el grupo de control en los motivos de autoestima y de distintividad, y puntuaciones significativamente más elevadas en el motivo de continuidad. A nivel de identificación colectiva no se aprecia efecto alguno de la mortalidad sobre los motivos identitarios.

  • English

    The present investigation intends to determine mortality salience’s impact on individual and collective identity, through identity motives such as self-esteem, efficacy, belongingness, distinctiveness, continuity and meaning. It was hypothesized that the awareness of one’s own death would boost the described identity motives at both individual and collective levels. Throughout an experimental design it was found that, for individual identity, the experimental group (exposed to mortality salience) showed marginally higher punctuations than the control group for the self-esteem and distinctiveness motives and significantly higher punctuations for the continuity motive. At the collective identity level mortality salience has no effect on the identity motives.

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