Research on the death psychology among Chinese during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 3005 - 10
• Main Authors: Li, Xiaowen, He, Yuanqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 06.02.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/477; 631/477/2811; China; Cognition; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Data mining; Death; Death threats; Grounded theory; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Mortality; multidisciplinary; Pandemics; Qualitative research; SARS-CoV-2; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Semantics; China

Under the threat of the novel coronavirus, people are compelled to contemplate some ultimate existential questions, such as life and death. This study collected texts related to the death psychology from Sina Weibo, and after data cleaning, a total of 3868 Weibo texts were included. Study 1 employed...