Strengthened social ties in disasters: Threat-awe encourages interdependent worldviews via powerlessness.

ABSTRACT: Threat-awe, a negatively valenced variant of awe, is thought to strengthen social ties among community members. However, few empirical studies have examined the social functions of threat-awe. This study investigated whether threat-awe is linked to interdependent worldviews through feelings of powerlessness in comparison with positive awe. After remembering and describing their experiences of positive-or threat-awe, 486 Japanese participants reported on items regarding a small self, a sense of powerlessness, and interdependent worldviews. The results demonstrated that threat-awe encouraged interdependent worldviews via an increased sense of powerlessness, rather than the small self, compared to the positive awe condition. From textual perspectives, the semantic networks between awe-related

SUBMITTER: Takano R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10132671 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature