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Summary: A psychosocial evaluation about the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the terror management theory

Dehşet yönetimi kuramı bağlamında COVID-19 salgını hakkında psikososyal bir değerlendirme

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While proximal defenses are irrational, rapid, and automatic mechanisms, distal defenses are efforts to defend the individual's cultural worldview and increase self-esteem.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, human beings were faced with a feeling of terror that they could not prevent, could not be protected, and were desperate.
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Key Findings & Data:In the second stage of the pandemic, where the threat of death decreased, an increase in psychosocial problems began to be observed.
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Conclusion & Impact:While proximal defenses are irrational, rapid, and automatic mechanisms, distal defenses are efforts to defend the individual's cultural worldview and increase self-esteem.
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Abstract

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, human beings were faced with a feeling of terror that they could not prevent, could not be protected, and were desperate. While trying to deal with the threat they faced, they resorted to many inappropriate ways. Some have tried to overprotect from viruses, while others have insisted on maintaining their normal routine and ignoring the threat. In the second stage of the pandemic, where the threat of death decreased, an increase in psychosocial problems began to be observed. This review is written to understand these dysfunctional behaviors according to Terror Management Theory. This theory provides insight into how human behavior is affected in terms of self-esteem and cultural worldview when mortality salience arises. According to this theory, people resort to conscious and unconscious proximal and distal defenses in the face of the mortality salience. While proximal defenses are irrational, rapid, and automatic mechanisms, distal defenses are efforts to defend the individual's cultural worldview and increase self-esteem.

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Covid-19 salgını nedeniyle insanoğlu önleyemediği, korunamadığı, çaresiz kaldığı bir durumla karşı karşıya gelerek dehşet duygusuna kapıldı. Karşılaştığı tehditle başa çıkmaya çalışırken uygun olmayan birçok yola da başvurdu. Kimileri virüsten aşırı önlem alarak korunmaya çalışırken, kimileri tehdidi yok sayarak normal rutinlerini sürdürmekte ısrarcı oldular. Salgının ölüm tehdidinin azaldığı ikinci aşamasına gelindiğinde psikososyal sorunlarda artış gözlenmeye başladı. Bu gözden geçirme yazısı Dehşet Yönetimi Kuramından yola çıkarak bu işlevsel olmayan davranışları anlama çabasıyla kaleme alındı. Söz konusu kuram ölümlülük belirginleştikçe ortaya çıkan dehşet duygusundan kurtulma güdüsünün insan davranışlarını nasıl etkilediği konusuna benlik saygısı ve kültürel dünya görüşü bağlamında bir bakış açısı sunmaktadır. Kurama göre ölüm farkındalığını belirginleştiren olayların yaşattığı dehşet duygusuyla başa çıkmak için insanlar yakın ve uzak vadede bilinçli ve bilinçdışı birçok başa çıkma yoluna yönelirler. Yakın savunmalar akıldışı, hızlı ve otomatik mekanizmalarken, uzak savunmalar bireyin kültürel dünya görüşünü savunma ve benlik saygısını arttırma yönündeki çabalardır.

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ÜNAL, S. (2020). Summary: A psychosocial evaluation about the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the terror management theory. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, Cilt: 23 - Sayı: 1, 67–71. https://ajindex.com/articles/211124

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