Universität zu Köln

Pradel, Franziska ORCID: 0000-0003-4559-0772 and Sattler, Sebastian ORCID: 0000-0002-6491-0754 (2022). Memories of a Death Threat: Negative Consequences of Unconscious Thoughts About a Terrorist Attack on Attitudes Towards Alcohol. Omega-J. Death Dying, 86 (2). S. 668 - 688. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1541-3764

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Abstract

Based on the terror management health model (TMHM), we examined the impact of terrorist attacks as reminders of death on implicit alcohol-related attitudes, including the moderating role of conscious death-related thoughts and alcohol-based self-esteem (ABS). With an online experiment (N = 487), we analyzed how thoughts and memories about a recent terrorist attack unconsciously (with a delay task) and consciously (without a delay task) affected implicit alcohol-related attitudes. We found that such thoughts increased the death-thought accessibility. While no main effect of the salience of the terrorist attack on alcohol-related attitudes existed, respondents with low ABS had more positive attitudes, when unconsciously thinking about the attack as compared to the control group. Respondents with high ABS in the delay task had lower alcohol-IAT scores. Overall, this study provides evidence that thoughts about terrorism that can be provoked through media affect alcohol-related attitudes. Such attitudes may cause negative health consequences through health-related decisions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Pradel, Franziska UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4559-0772 UNSPECIFIED Sattler, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-0754 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-666840
DOI:	10.1177/0030222820984935
Journal or Publication Title:	Omega-J. Death Dying
Volume:	86
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 668 - 688
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1541-3764
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MORTALITY SALIENCE; MANAGEMENT THEORY; FEAR APPEALS; SELF-ESTEEM; DRINKING; HEALTH; ACCESSIBILITY; REMINDERS; DEFENSE; EXPECTANCIES Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Social Sciences, Biomedical Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66684