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Peter J. Helm

Researcher at University of Missouri

Publications -  29
Citations -  330

Peter J. Helm is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terror management theory & Existentialism. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications receiving 147 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter J. Helm include University of Arizona.

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A prisoner of one's own mind: Identifying and understanding existential isolation

TL;DR: Peng et al. as mentioned in this paper developed an individual difference measure of existential isolation, or, isolation with regard to one's experience of reality, which can assume an interpersonal or an existential form.
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Fatalism in the context of COVID-19: Perceiving coronavirus as a death sentence predicts reluctance to perform recommended preventive behaviors

TL;DR: Associating coronavirus with death was related with a number of sociodemographic factors including age, race, and availability of sick leave and can be used by public health researchers and practitioners to identify those for whom targeted health communication and interventions would be most beneficial.
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Feeling alone in your subjectivity: Introducing the State Trait Existential Isolation Model (STEIM)

TL;DR: Existential isolation is a unique form of interpersonal isolation, related to, but distinct from loneliness and social isolation as mentioned in this paper, which is the subjective sense one is alone in one's experience, and that others cannot understand one's perspective.
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Explaining sex differences in existential isolation research

TL;DR: This article found that men report higher levels of existential isolation than women, and that this difference may be mediated by the sex difference in endorsement of communal and agentic values, but agentic value endorsement played no role.
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Existential isolation, loneliness, and attachment in young adults

TL;DR: This article examined how existential isolation relates to dimensions of relational attachment and found that EI is positively associated with insecure attachment, but more associated with avoidant than with anxious attachment, with loneliness more strongly related to anxious than avoidant attachment, suggesting that different forms of interpersonal isolation are especially likely to be involved with different attachment orientations.