Research on “Mediated” Vicarious Traumatization in Major Epidemics

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10.2991/assehr.k.200425.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“mediated” vicarious traumatization, public psychological problems during pneumonia, social media, trauma intervention

Abstract

In the beginning of 2020, a new type of coronavirus pneumonia broke out in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. What deserves our attention is that there is an increasing tendency of vicarious traumatization caused by Social Media During the Pneumonia. The emphasis of this study lies in the research of the media’s role in promoting the formation of vicarious traumatization during the outbreak pneumonia, and the impact of vicarious traumatization on human psychology. Our goal has been to provide ways to alleviate “mediated” vicarious traumatization in the pneumonia. We conducted research based on psychological theories and Journalism and Communication investigation. Through analysis, we found that “mediated” vicarious traumatization may have a strong and persistent negative effect on the contact’s psychology, which requires great attention and timely suppression. In addition, this article puts forward expectations for future quantitative research on vicarious traumatization and the development space of new media.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiaozhi Shen
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/29
TI  - Research on “Mediated” Vicarious Traumatization in Major Epidemics
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Health and Humanities Education (ICMHHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 195
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200425.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200425.042
ID  - Shen2020
ER  -