When death thoughts knock, mindfulness protects life meaning from existential threat

• Main Author: Del Rosario, Francis Edward N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Mindfulness (Psychology); Existential psychology; Death—Psychological aspects; Clinical Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/7113
• Institution: De La Salle University

Terror Management Theory (TMT) posits that unconscious death thoughts undermine meaning in life under certain dispositional constraints. One disposition that has been established to be an effective buffer against the harmful effects of mortality salience is mindfulness. This study aimed to determine...