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The Relationship Between Media Involvement and Death Anxiety of Self-Quarantined People in the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: The Mediating Roles of Empathy and Sympathy.
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- Death Anxiety Associated With Coronavirus (COVID-19) Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Omega · 2024Pooled it
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- Sympathy towards people infected with COVID-19 mediates relations between media use and death anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Personality disorder functioning styles and empathy in trainee nurses: the mediating and moderating roles of death attitudes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- How loneliness impacts depression among Chinese college students throughout COVID-19: mediators of death anxiety and negative affect.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Effects of information involvement on subjective well-being during public health emergencies: the mediating roles of emotional regulation and social support.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between E-Health Literacy, Health Anxiety, Cyberchondria, and Death Anxiety in University Students That Study in Health Related Department.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Psychosocial Impact of Quarantines: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- What Are the Differences in Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on Social Media and Those Who Did Not?Psychiatry investigation · 2023Article
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- Nurses' Death Anxiety and Ageism towards Older Adults Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Symbolic Immortality.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- The Effect of Nurses' Death Anxiety on Life Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Network Analysis of Media Exposure and Psychological Outcomes During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19 in China.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
- Cognitive bias toward the Internet: The causes of adolescents' Internet addiction under parents' self-affirmation consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mediator role of presence of meaning and self-esteem in the relationship of social support and death anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak put health threat to people globally, and self-quarantine was suggested by the Chinese government to contain the outbreak. In self-quarantine, media was the most important way to get information about the outbreak. However, the relationship between media involvement and death anxiety, and the underlying mechanism are poorly understood. We conducted an online survey of 917 participants to assess the media involvement and other potential factors (empathy, sympathy and affect) which might affect death anxiety. Correlation analysis and mediation models were conducted to examine the relationship between media involvement and death anxiety, and the possible mediating roles of empathy, sympathy, and affect. It was found that media involvement was positively associated with death anxiety. Empathy, sympathy, and negative affect played mediating roles between them. However, empathy and sympathy act differently in the association, as empathy could lead to the increase of negative affect, while sympathy did not.
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