عنوان

Empathy and Forgiveness in Religious Intergroup Conflict after the 2013 Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack: A Terror Management Study

Number

TL48072

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Empathy and Forgiveness in Religious Intergroup Conflict after the 2013 Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack: A Terror Management Study

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Allison McDowell-Smith

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Halkias, Daphne

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Northcentral University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

187

Text of Note

Committee members: Lea, Suzanne

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-43495-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

School of Business and Technology Management

Body granting the degree

Northcentral University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

Since death is the only real certainty in life, it is necessary to understand how individuals respond to mortality salience and how it impacts others within our society including outgroup members. Within ethnically and religious diverse communities across the U.S., religion related intergroup conflict is escalating between the majority ingroup of non-Muslim Americans and the Muslim Americans minority outgroup. The study clarified the role of empathy in forgiving outgroup members, specifically Muslim Americans, for being identified with transgressor outgroups involved in violence against the ingroup, specifically non-Muslim Americans. A quantitative, correlational, and non-experimental design sampled 171 undergraduate students and examined whether or not empathy was related to forgiveness of Muslim Americans among non-Muslim college student participants who reviewed a media report about a terrorist attack carried out by homegrown Muslim American terrorists. Empathy was measured with the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index and forgiveness was measured using The Forgiveness Scale; whereas mortality salience was a fixed control variable with exposure to mortality salience being present among those individuals sampled within the study. The relationship between empathy and forgiveness was significant, r(171) = .225, p = .003. To investigate whether any of the following factors (age, gender, ethnicity, race, major, and undergraduate level) moderated the relationship between empathy and forgiveness, the Factor x Empathy interaction was evaluated in various multiple linear regression models. While none of the following factors (age, gender, ethnicity, race, major, and undergraduate level) moderated the relationship between empathy and forgiveness, there was a positive, statistically significant relationship between empathy and forgiveness among undergraduate college students. Recommendations for future research include the use of a more heterogeneous sample, the investigation of the relationship between other prosocial values and forgiveness, and the use of different triggers of mortality salience relating to terrorist attacks.

Social research; Islamic Studies; Business education

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Boston marathon bombing;Hueristic model of positive terror management;Intergroup conflict;Muslim americans;Prosocial values;Terror management theory

McGlothlin, James C.

Halkias, Daphne

Subdivision

School of Business and Technology Management

Northcentral University

Call Number

1648175299; 3668417

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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