| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士班 === 95 === The purpose of the study is to explore how death anxiety may activate the maintenance of the parent-child relationship by forgiving the un-filial behavior of son. Two hundreds and seventeen participants were randomly assigned to either the mortality salience or control condition. Under the mortality-salience condition, participants with children tended to react with less intense negative feeling toward the un-filial son than did participants without children. For participants with children, mortality-salience elicited less negative feeling toward an un-filial son than did the dental-pain salience. The less intense negative feeling may represent the tendency to forgive the un-filial son to maintain the relationship. It was also found that whether exposing to mortality salience or not, aged participants tend to have weaker response than young ones. It is suggested that for parents, the maintenance of parent-child relationship may be used to cope with death anxiety.
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