Changes in death fear during COVID-19 in Hubei, China: The effects of life-history and current external environment.

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI:10.1037/ebs0000295

Shaolingyun Guo, H. Lu

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The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the spread of deadly virus globally compels individuals to reevaluate death and dying, and this forced awareness of death influences adaptation to a changing environment. Several studies have employed artificial laboratory settings of mortality salience or subliminal death primes to increase mortality awareness and mortality threat perception. However, few studies have used natural settings to activate a larger ecological network of perceived mortality threats. To understand such natural environment conditions under which individuals feel most fearful for their safety and lives, the goal of this study is to examine whether changes in overall fear of death varied according to individual distinctions in life history (LH) strategy and current environmental status under the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents of Hubei, China (N = 202) reported their fear of death subject scores once during and once after the mandatory lockdown period. The results revealed that LH was associated with fear of death, and the current environment moderated this association, suggesting that slow LH strategy was predictive of more intense death fear at lower levels of mortality threat in a given environment than at higher levels of this threat. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement In the present study, we compared individual differences in life-history behavioral and cognitive profiles in influencing death fear during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We explored the moderating role of environmental unpredictability in the relationship between fear of death and LH during and after compulsory lockdown. This study employed natural environments to activate a more comprehensive network of death-related concepts as the global spread of the virus progresses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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新冠肺炎期间中国湖北死亡恐惧的变化：生命史和当前外部环境的影响。

冠状病毒疾病（新冠肺炎）大流行的爆发和致命病毒在全球的传播迫使个人重新评估死亡和死亡，而这种对死亡的强制认识影响了对不断变化的环境的适应。几项研究采用了死亡率显著性或潜意识死亡素数的人工实验室设置，以提高死亡率意识和死亡率威胁感知。然而，很少有研究利用自然环境来激活一个更大的死亡威胁生态网络。为了了解个体对自己的安全和生命感到最恐惧的自然环境条件，本研究的目的是检查在新冠肺炎大流行下，总体死亡恐惧的变化是否因个体在生命史（LH）策略和当前环境状况方面的差异而变化。中国湖北省居民（N=202）报告了他们在强制封锁期间和之后的一次死亡恐惧评分。结果表明，LH与死亡恐惧有关，而当前的环境缓和了这种联系，这表明在给定的环境中，在较低的死亡威胁水平下，缓慢的LH策略可以预测比在较高的死亡威胁级别下更强烈的死亡恐惧。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）影响声明在本研究中，我们比较了在冠状病毒疾病（新冠肺炎）大流行期间影响死亡恐惧的生活史行为和认知特征的个体差异。我们探讨了环境不可预测性在强制封锁期间和之后对死亡的恐惧与LH之间的关系中的调节作用。随着病毒在全球的传播，这项研究利用自然环境激活了一个更全面的死亡相关概念网络。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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