Mortality salience and the desire for offspring

By Immo Fritsche, E. Jonas, Peter Fischer, Nicolas Koranyi, Nicole Berger, B. Fleischmann. 2007

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Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “Further studies found MS increasing enthusiasm for having kids in Germany, China, and England (Fritsche et al., 2007; Mathews & Sear, 2008; Zhou, Lei, Marley, & Chen, 2009).”
Perceived collective continuity and ingroup identification as defence against death awareness (2009, background): “Along similar lines of research, Fritsche et al. (2007) demonstrated that mortality salience facilitates the accessibility of children-related thoughts, and that the salience of one’s own offspring eliminates the typical effects of mortality salience on cultural worldview defence.”
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research (2010, background): “First, participants were asked different questions: whether they wished to have any children at all (Fritsche et al., 2007) versus how many children they wanted to have (i.”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “Gillath, & Shaver, 2002), and increase desire for parenthood (Fritsche et al., 2007; Wisman & Goldenberg, 2005).”