The mind, the heart, and the leader in times of crisis: How and when COVID-19-triggered mortality salience relates to state anxiety, job engagement, and prosocial behavior.

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (11) ◽  
pp. 1218-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Hu ◽  
Wei He ◽  
Kong Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Examining the Role of Transparent Organizational Communication for Employees’ Job Engagement and Disengagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-308
Author(s):  
Julia Stranzl ◽  
Christopher Ruppel ◽  
Sabine Einwiller
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Engagement And Disengagement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organizational Transparency

This study provides an understanding of how employees’ perception of organizational transparency during the long-lasting situation of the COVID-19 pandemic engendered their job engagement as well as job disengagement. Data were collected by means of an online survey among 410 employees in Austria during March 2021. Results show that employees’ perception of their organization’s approach to transparency directly influenced their job engagement and disengagement. Importantly, the relationship between transparency and job engagement was also mediated through organizational trust, and job-specific state anxiety mediated the relationship between transparency and job disengagement. The results imply the importance of transparency during times of great uncertainty and emphasize the necessity to closely consider employees’ emotional states and worries during a crisis.

scholarly journals The Underlying Process of Prosocial Behavior Among Soldiers: A Terror Management Theory Perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ido Heller ◽  
Samer Halabi
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Dental Pain ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Underlying Process ◽  
Perception Of Threat

The mortality salience (MS) hypothesis postulates that anxiety elicited by mortality awareness leads people to develop negative emotions toward those who hold values inconsistent with their worldview faith. We explored this hypothesis in a sample of 76 Israeli combat soldiers, who were asked to reflect on either their mortality or dental pain. Subsequently, participants reported their motivation to help a father in need who was either an Arab (outgroup) or a Jewish Israeli (ingroup), as well as their perceptions of threat by Arab Israelis. Regression analysis indicated that mortality reminders intensified soldiers’ perception of threat by the outgroup, leading to an increased desire to assist a Jewish-Israeli father, and a decreased motivation to help an Arab-Israeli one. The findings demonstrate the pronounced effects of MS on soldiers involved in frequent combat actions in terms of evoking negative emotions leading to reluctance to help unarmed civilian outgroup members. Recommendations for soldiers’ pre-deployment psychoeducation sessions are provided.

Quid pro quo: The effect of individuals' exchange orientation on prosocial behavior and the moderating role of mortality salience

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schindler ◽  
Marc-André Reinhard ◽  
Dagmar Stahlberg ◽  
Andrea Len
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Exchange Orientation ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF MORTALITY SALIENCE ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ INTENT TO HELP OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S80-S80
Author(s):  
Erika A Fenstermacher ◽  
Jessica Birg ◽  
Vincent Barbieri ◽  
Nathaniel Herr
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Student Volunteer ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Volunteer Group

Abstract Terror Management Theory (TMT) states that the awareness of one’s own death causes humans to experience intense anxiety, which must be continuously managed. Much of the research on TMT has focused on negative outcomes, rather than prosocial behavior, begging the question: “Can priming individuals with the thought of their own death trigger them to behave in ways that benefit others?”. Jonas et al. (2002), found that when mortality salience was primed prosocial behavior increased. In line with TMT, they hypothesized that people may behave in a more prosocial manner as it fits in with their personal values. The present study recruited 108 students who were randomly assigned to a mortality salience (MS) or control condition. Participants also completed baseline self-reports, which included measures of ageism, social desirability, personality, and empathy. After the study seemed to end, participants were given a disguised measure of helping behavior, which they believed to be an interest survey for a student volunteer group. Preliminary analyses indicate that those in the MS condition were more willing to be contacted to volunteer with kids than being contacted to volunteer with older adults. We also found that those in the MS condition were more likely to be contacted to volunteer with kids than those in the control condition. Our findings are consistent with previous work showing that individuals favor their ingroup when primed with their death. This reflects the importance of focused efforts on encouraging young people to identify with older adults and on promoting prosocial behavior.

scholarly journals Compassionate Embodied Virtual Experience Increases the Adherence to Meditation Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1276
Author(s):  
Jaime Navarrete ◽  
Marian Martínez-Sanchis ◽  
Miguel Bellosta-Batalla ◽  
Rosa Baños ◽  
Ausiàs Cebolla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Implicit Measure ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Virtual Experience ◽  
The Mind ◽  
At Home

Virtual Reality (VR) could be useful to overcome imagery and somatosensory difficulties of compassion-based meditations given that it helps generate empathy by facilitating the possibility of putting oneself into the mind of others. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an embodied-VR system in generating a compassionate response and increasing the quality and adherence to meditation practice. Health professionals or healthcare students (n = 41) were randomly assigned to a regular audio guided meditation or to a meditation supported by an embodied-VR system, “The machine to be another”. In both conditions, there was an initial in-person session and two weeks of meditation practice at home. An implicit measure was used to measure prosocial behavior, and self-report questionnaires were administered to assess compassion related constructs, quality of meditation, and frequency of meditation. Results revealed that participants from the embodied-VR condition meditated for double the amount of time at home than participants who only listened to the usual guided meditation. However, there were no significant differences in the overall quality of at-home meditation. In conclusion, this study confirms that embodied-VR systems are useful for increasing adherence to meditation practice.

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