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Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19
Our study investigates several antecedents and consequences of negative emotional reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-national sample of 737 participants. Our results show that COVID-19 anxiety and negative mood are positively predicted by death anxiety and the use in communication of gene...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33686325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01171-8 |
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author | Curșeu, Petru Lucian Coman, Andra Diana Panchenko, Anton Fodor, Oana Cătălina Rațiu, Lucia |
author_facet | Curșeu, Petru Lucian Coman, Andra Diana Panchenko, Anton Fodor, Oana Cătălina Rațiu, Lucia |
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description | Our study investigates several antecedents and consequences of negative emotional reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-national sample of 737 participants. Our results show that COVID-19 anxiety and negative mood are positively predicted by death anxiety and the use in communication of general COVID-19 information. Death reflection reduces negative mood in relation to COVID-19 and attenuates the positive association between death anxiety on the one hand and the negative mood and anxiety in relation to COVID-19 on the other hand. The use of humoristic information about COVID-19 reduces anxiety and social distance towards people infected with COVID-19 and also attenuates the positive association between the use in communication of general COVID-19 information and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. Our results also show that the association between death anxiety and social distance towards those infected with COVID-19 is mediated by anxiety and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. Finally, the association between the use of COVID-19 information in interpersonal communication and social distance is mediated by anxiety and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. The study thus reveals specific insights for tailored interventions to reduce negativity towards people infected with COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-79308912021-03-04 Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 Curșeu, Petru Lucian Coman, Andra Diana Panchenko, Anton Fodor, Oana Cătălina Rațiu, Lucia Curr Psychol Article Our study investigates several antecedents and consequences of negative emotional reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-national sample of 737 participants. Our results show that COVID-19 anxiety and negative mood are positively predicted by death anxiety and the use in communication of general COVID-19 information. Death reflection reduces negative mood in relation to COVID-19 and attenuates the positive association between death anxiety on the one hand and the negative mood and anxiety in relation to COVID-19 on the other hand. The use of humoristic information about COVID-19 reduces anxiety and social distance towards people infected with COVID-19 and also attenuates the positive association between the use in communication of general COVID-19 information and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. Our results also show that the association between death anxiety and social distance towards those infected with COVID-19 is mediated by anxiety and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. Finally, the association between the use of COVID-19 information in interpersonal communication and social distance is mediated by anxiety and negative mood in relation to COVID-19. The study thus reveals specific insights for tailored interventions to reduce negativity towards people infected with COVID-19. Springer US 2021-03-04 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC7930891/ /pubmed/33686325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01171-8 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Curșeu, Petru Lucian Coman, Andra Diana Panchenko, Anton Fodor, Oana Cătălina Rațiu, Lucia Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title | Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title_full | Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title_fullStr | Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title_short | Death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with COVID 19 |
title_sort | death anxiety, death reflection and interpersonal communication as predictors of social distance towards people infected with covid 19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33686325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01171-8 |
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