Globalization, Culture, and Anxiety: Perspectives and Predictions from Terror Management Theory

摘要: This paper considers the psychological and social consequences of an ascendant global capitalism its resultant cultural impositions from perspective current psychology theory. Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that culture serves as a defense against terror inherent in human existence. TMT proposes cultures serve vital function making anxiety-buffering self-esteem available to humans by providing world-views standards value achieve within description reality. Persons whose faith world-view is strong who see themselves living up effects needed existentially terrifying world. Because hegemonic guarantee meaning system affords only “winners” great competition, most people will perceive “losers.” predicts increased anxiety distress because capitalist offer sustenance minority world's people. review theory, empirical supports, set hypotheses derived predictable psychological, social, behavioral culture.