生育缓解死亡恐惧的机制研究——以自我价值定向理论为指导

Research on the Mechanism of Fertility Alleviating Death Fear—Guided by the Self-Value Orientation Theory

摘要: 随着社会的不断发展，死亡恐惧已成为一个备受关注的社会心理现象，同时生育意愿却呈现下降趋势。本文旨在通过综述相关研究，从自我价值定向理论的视角出发，探讨生育如何作为一种心理防御机制来缓解人类对死亡的恐惧。研究发现，生育通过提升个体的总体自我价值感和强化个体的情境性自我价值感，为个体的心理健康与积极应对生活挑战提供了坚实的内在支撑。本文进一步分析了生育意愿与自我价值定向之间的内在联系，发现生育能够提升个体的自我价值感和归属感水平，赋予生命更加丰富的价值，使个体在面对死亡时保持超然态度，从而减轻死亡恐惧，并提出了未来研究的方向，以期为缓解死亡恐惧和提高生育意愿提供理论借鉴。

Abstract: With the continuous development of society, the fear of death has become a social psychological phenomenon attracting much attention, but the willingness to have children shows a declining trend. This paper aims to explore how fertility is used as a psychological defense mechanism to alleviate human fear of death from the perspective of self-worth orientation theory. The study found that fertility provides a solid internal support for individual mental health and actively coping with life challenges by enhancing their overall sense of self-value and strengthening their sense of situational self-value. This paper further analyzes the internal connection between fertility intention and self value orientation, and finds that fertility can enhance the level of individual self value and belonging, give life more rich value, make the individual in the face of death, to reduce the fear of death, and put forward the future research direction, in order to provide theoretical reference for alleviate the fear of death and improve the fertility intention.