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ArticleFrontiers in public health2026

The impact of PTSD symptoms on post-disaster consumption: tertiary victims of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Türkiye.

İbrahim Kırcova, Munise Hayrun Sağlam, Ahmet Can Şenlik, Doğan Mert Akdemir, Ebru Enginkaya

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İbrahim KırcovaDepartment of Business Administration, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Munise Hayrun SağlamDepartment of Business Administration, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Ahmet Can ŞenlikDepartment of Aviation Management, Istanbul Gelişim University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Doğan Mert AkdemirDepartment of International Trade, Istanbul Ticaret University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Ebru EnginkayaDepartment of Business Administration, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

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Abstract

Introduction: The February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes reshaped everyday life well beyond the impact zone; however, how disaster-linked psychological states influence psychosocial wellbeing and everyday behaviors, including consumer responses among tertiary victims (geographically distant yet psychologically affected), remains underexplored. Methods: We employ an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design (QUAN → QUAL): a cross-sectional survey of Istanbul adults ( Results: Quantitatively, PTSD relates to post-disaster wellbeing and consumption directly and indirectly through death anxiety (DA), intolerance of uncertainty (IUS), and search for meaning (MLQ-S); perceived media pressure (ME) attenuates these translations on average. Qualitatively, participants described securing basics and redundant backups as control-restoration and "emotional insurance" to preserve safety, small indulgences as low-guilt self-care that supports emotional health, media as a double-edged influence (unregulated viewing amplifies anxiety; deliberate curation dampens it), and purposeful, value-aligned purchases as identity repair and resilience-building. Discussion: The findings extend terror-management, control-restoration, and meaning-making accounts to vicarious-trauma contexts and identify media regulation as a key boundary condition. Practically, they support public health risk communication that normalizes selective exposure, ethical preparedness that restores agency and wellbeing without excess, and interventions that channel recovery toward responsible self-care and value-aligned choices.

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DisastersEarthquakesStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdultAnxietyCross-Sectional StudiesDisaster VictimsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Ageddeath anxietyintolerance of uncertaintyKahramanmaraş earthquakemedia exposurepost-disaster consumer behaviorpost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)search for meaning

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