Mortality salience effects refer to the worldview defense or self-esteem striving caused by mortality salience.
It showed that: (1) the operation of mortality salience did raise the death anxiety of those undergraduates, the mean score of anxiety was 2.28±0.49;
The measurement of mortality salience effects can be carried out by examing the subjects' reactions on worldview defense or self-esteem striving after mortality salience.