ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023
Examining terror management theory in Ukraine: impact of air-raid alarms and explosions on mental health, somatic symptoms, and well-being.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Psychometric properties of the Ukrainian version of Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale (DSPS).European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- A conditional threat-regulation model: When deliberative processing of ongoing threat reduces intergroup bias.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Spatial Cognition in the Field: A New Approach Using the Smartphone's Compass Sensors and Navigation Apps.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Perinatal mental health and reproductive behavior among women in wartime Ukraine: a cohort study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Capturing daily well-being: psychometric evaluation of the MHC-SF in a daily diary design.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- War in Ukraine vs. Motherhood: Mental health self-perceptions of relocated pregnant women and new mothers.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Non-guided, mobile, CBT-I-based sleep intervention in War-torn Ukraine: A feasibility study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Explaining post-traumatic stress symptoms and sleep disturbance in Ukrainian civilians: perceived threat versus objective war exposure.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study sought to evaluate Terror Management Theory (TMT) assumptions about death awareness and its psychological impact in the context of a real-world war situation with high external validity. We examined if factors such as habituation to war circumstances and psychological resilience could buffer the effects on civilians' anxiety, physical and mental health, and affect. Method: We implemented a pre-registered smartphone-based experience sampling method study over four weeks, with 307 participants ( Results: The data indicated that war situations significantly increased anxiety, negatively impacting mental health, and raising somatic symptom severity. While habituation showed a mild buffering effect on these impacts, resilience did not. Conclusion: This real-world investigation supports TMT's fundamental assumptions about death awareness and its psychological implications. However, even amidst the presence of real, life-threatening situations, the buffering effects of habituation were surprisingly minimal. This suggests that further exploration of TMT's buffering factors in real-world scenarios is warranted.
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