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University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Research Result Summaries Fall 2022 Personality, Risk, and Mortality Awareness 2021 Kathryn Lafreniere University of Windsor, lafren1@uwindsor.ca Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/research-result-summaries Consistent with the TCPS 2 (4.7) this is a research summary provided to participants and should not be considered a formal publication of results. Recommended Citation Lafreniere, K. (2022). Personality, Risk, and Mortality Awareness 2021. Retrieved from https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/research-result-summaries/135 This Completed Summary is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Result Summaries by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact scholarship@uwindsor.ca.    Personality, Risk, and Mortality Awareness 2021  Kathryn D. Lafreniere1 & Mark R. McDermott2 1Psychology Department, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Psychological Sciences, University of East London, UK Has the current pandemic changed the way that people think about their own mortality and influenced their attitudes toward death and dying? Have people changed in terms of their rebelliousness or risk-taking tendencies as a function of living during pandemic times?  In 2013, we conducted a study that examined how rebelliousness related to mortality awareness and risk-taking tendencies, using the Multidimensional Mortality Awareness Measure (Levasseur et al., 2015) in a sample of 318 Canadian students.  Findings from our previous research showed that proactive rebelliousness was related to mortality disengagement, or a detachment from death awareness, as well as financial and health-related risk taking.   In the present study, we administered the same online questionnaire measures to a Canadian sample of 304 students.  We sought to determine whether the relations among rebelliousness, risk-taking tendency, and mortality awareness would show similar patterns to those we previously observed, or whether a cohort of individuals who have been living through the COVID-19 pandemic show a different pattern of relations among these variables. We also explored whether the present sample displayed differences in fearfulness, disempowerment, and acceptance in relation to mortality, relative to the 2013 sample.   Our findings indicated that mortality awareness subscales changed only slightly, with some reduction in fearfulness, and small increases in mortality acceptance and disempowerment. Proactive rebelliousness was the strongest predictor of risk-taking in both our pre-COVID and COVID samples. Results from studies such as ours have implications for considering both attitudinal and motivational shifts that might result from living through a global pandemic.    

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