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According to terror management theory, people use self-esteem, cultural worldview, nostalgia and creativity as defenses against the fear of death. In our study participated 319 people from 18 to 25 years of age, students (n = 156) and patients of the emergency toxicology ward (people after self-poisoning attempts, n = 163). We used ZTPI, Death Attitude Profile-Revised, Fear of Personal Death Scale, death-access word completion task and hardiness scale. The suicidal act was viewed as a mortality salience, and the hypothesis was made that people, denying their recent suicidal attempt (n = 33), with one (n = 95) and several (n = 35) suicidal attempts in personal history exert different terror management patterns in comparison with each other and the control group. It occurred that people with denial fall back on nostalgia and positive past, people, who look into the future and view the present as fatalistic, fear death the most, whereas death attracts people with negative time perspective
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