Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Department of Geography, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China

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• Research Article   
  Research on the Evolution of the Death Psychology of Chinese People in the Context of Lifting COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions: A Mixed Study of Weibo Big Data
  Author(s): Xiaowen Li* and Yuanqing He
  
  Amid the novel coronavirus threat, individuals are compelled to ponder over profound existential matters like life and death. This study employs a mixed research methodology, merging grounded theory with big data mining techniques, to explore into the psychological adaptation mechanism when individuals confront death threats amidst epidemic deregulation. We fetched texts related to death psychology keywords from the Sina Weibo platform. Post data cleaning, the database incorporated 3868 Weibo texts. Grounded theory forms the basis for data coding and theory formulation. Subsequently, big data mining techniques, including topic mining and semantic network analysis, are employed to validate the formulated codes and theories. The findings demonstrate that within the "Emotion-Cognition-Behavior-Value" framework, the implications of death threats manifest in four as.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0487.23.13.466

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