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SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8549441 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Yunjiao Y Tan Xuyun X Xing Cai C Zheng Jiaren J
Acta psychologica 20211027
Healthcare workers play a vital role in the fight against COVID-19. Based on Terror Management Theory (TMT), the present research examined whether a close relationships defense mechanism reduces anxiety among healthcare workers (N = 729) in China. Our results suggest that this defense mechanism, as indexed by relationship satisfaction, serves as an effective terror management source after exposure to reminders of death (MS; mortality salience). These findings extend TMT by identifying two modera ...[more]