Somatic Awareness And Body Image Theory
With the increased understanding of Terror Management, Somatic Awareness, and Body Image Theories; there appears to be someare specific interactions between these theories that should be explored and used to bolster this knowledge and shed new light into aspects of these models that may not have been discovered as of yet. According to Becker and Terror Management Theory (TMT), our mortality and self-esteem are the key motivators in life, which begs the question, what if individuals had higher or lower awareness of their bodies, or Somatic awareness? Would this different awareness cause a shift in mortality salience within these different individuals? Would one individual have more or less defense toward mortality salience if they have higher