Failure+Causes+Fear-+The+Effect+of+Self-Esteem+Threat+on+Death-Anxiety+by+CLAY+ROUTLEDGE

Routledge, Clay. "Failure Causes Fear: The Effect of Self-Esteem Threat on Death-Anxiety." GSU Database. North Dakota State University, 1 Nov. 2012. Web. 15 June 2016.

In the article “Failure Causes Fear”, Clay Routledge explores the concept of self-esteem and it’s on death anxiety. Clay stated that self-esteem is a shield that people can use to cope with death anxiety because people feel more confident in themselves. The writer explains that death anxiety and self-esteem have an inverse correlation, but an experiment needed to be performed to better test the results. Through an experiment on seventy-six undergraduate psychology students, it was discovered that by bring up confidence boosting memories of the students it increased their hopeful view of life. The opposite in which they reflected on a failure cause them to have a negative view which increased death anxiety. This article is important for my understanding of the reason people fear death. This article explains well on the idea that human’s fear of death is sometimes an emotional factor and not irrational. Emotional factors are always a contributor to human life and the author used a great experiment to draw out that concept.