Exploring the Existential Implications of Covid-19 in Health Communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey A Harvell-Bowman (0000-0001-5477-0535, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pages | 000276422311640 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642231164052 |
| OpenAlex | W4366689181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 54 |
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provided an existential threat the world has rarely seen and forced Americans to make meaning in a world of uncertainty surrounding what most have taken for granted, being healthy. Reviewing data from several studies collected throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, this article uses COVID-19 as a case study to understand reasoning to follow (or not) the recommendations set forth by government agencies through understanding the effects of longitudinal death salience (i.e., long-term awareness of death). The Terror Management Health Model (TMHM) argues that death is a key component to the condition of human behavior to elongate life. If the TMHM is correct, then Americans should have widely followed government recommendations, but instead violence and a polarized America ensued. Implications for health communication and the TMHM are discussed, providing a path forward for health communication and existential psychology scholars
Cognitive psychology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Disease · Existentialism · Government (linguistics) · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Meaning (existential) · Mortality salience · Pandemic · Political science · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Salience (neuroscience) · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Psychological and behavioural responses to Coronavirus disease 2019
Tweeting Social Change
Antecedents to Psychological Reactance
Fear Appeals and Persuasion
Mental health problems and social media exposure during Covid-19 outbreak
The implications of death for health
Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the Covid-19 pandemic
Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication
The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem
How Fear Appeal Approaches in Covid-19 Health Communication May Be Harming the Global Community
Fear of Covid-19
Health Information Consumption under Covid-19 Lockdown
Persuasive Messages, Social Norms, and Reactance
“The Part Played by People” in Times of Covid-19
Fear appeals, information processing, and behavioral intentions toward climate change
Continued influence of misinformation in times of Covid ‐19
Degrees of deception
Mental health consequences of Covid-19 media coverage
A Theory of Psychological Reactance
Qualitative analysis of visual risk communication on twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social media as a source of medical information during Covid-19
Constructive Journalism in the Face of a Crisis
Putting the fear back into fear appeals
Testing terror management health model and integrating its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance
When the death makes you smoke
Religion and reactance to Covid-19 mitigation guidelines
Evidence for terror management theory
Promoting Covid-19 Vaccination
Covid-19 Communication Ecologies
Perceptions of cancer as a death sentence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |