Mortality salience and helping intentions: mediating role of search for meaning and moderating role of negotiable fate

IntroductionThis study explores the “altruism born of suffering” hypothesis, which suggests that adversity motivates individuals to help others, potentially mediated by their search for meaning. Grounded in terror management theory, it investigates how mortality salience influences helping intention...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychiatry
Main Authors:	Baorui Chang, Jiaxin Cheng, Jiandong Fang, Zhaohua Lyu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-03-01
Subjects:	mortality salience helping intentions search for meaning negotiable fate terror management theory
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1507212/full