WAKIMOTO Ryutaro    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Information and Communication    Position   Associate Professor
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2018/03
Type	Bulletin of Universities and Institutes
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Effects of mortality salience on subjective temporal distance of achievement-relevant events: A comparative examination between self-enhancement and self-consistency strivings.
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal Type	Japan
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.131-144
Author and coauthor	Ryutaro Wakimoto
Details	Research based on terror management theory has shown that mortality salience instigates self-esteem strivings. However, recent study suggests that mortality salience engender not only self-esteem strivings but also strivings for self-consistency. The present article examines whether mortality salience increase consistency-strivings or self-esteem strivings when they are incompatible, employing subjective temporal distance of academic success and failure as dependent variables. Experiment 1 found that following mortality salience, individuals with low self-esteem report greater temporal distance of a success, while the high self-esteem counterpart report greater temporal distance of a failure. Experiment 2 showed that individuals with high academic contingency and low academic self-esteem report greater temporal distance of a success following mortality salience. Unexpectedly, individuals with low academic contingency and low academic self-esteem report smaller temporal distance of a success in response to mortality salience. These results indicate that under a certain condition, mortality salience instigate consistency-strivings rather than self-esteem strivings.