Compare and contrast the Quest for Significance Theory and Terror Management Theory
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• Both are relatively new theories for explaining why people join terrorist groups.
• Both are focused on psychological explanations.
• Both can apply to people of different backgrounds, faiths, cultural upbringing.
• Quest for significance the more widely studied and supported; terror management still new and less well defined.
• Quest for significance suggests that the person lacks meaning in his/her life and wants to participate in an important cause.
• Person is driven by need to become significant.
• Prompted by having had significant loss, or the threat of significant loss, or the opportunity to significant gain (e.g., self-esteem; belonging to a group).
• Often socially isolated in present life; wants association with others.
• Terror Management Theory assumes the individual has high anxiety of eventual death.
• Once dead, person no longer significant.
• Person is driven by fear and a need to deal with inevitable death.
• The fear or terror is managed if one associates with group that promises a form of immortality.
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