Study: Watching disaster films helps with mental adaptation to the epidemic
Study: Watching disaster films helps with mental adaptation to the epidemic
7/2020
According to a recent new study, watching disaster or apocalypse films may help people cope well with the Corona pandemic.
The researchers said that movies and even books can help adapt to real-world situations, as they can guide people to plan their actions or how their reactions will be in dangerous situations.
"If the movie is good, it attracts you to it and you can imagine yourself in the place of the characters who are in trouble, and thus you learn how to deal with difficult situations inadvertently and indirectly," Coltan Scrivner, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, told the Guardian.
The new study, published in the journal PsyArXiv, explored how watching disaster films helps people cope with real health crises, and researchers brought together 310 participants to watch epidemiological films and details of their preparedness for real-life challenges.
The researchers also studied participants' anxiety, depression, irritability or insomnia levels. The results showed that people who enjoy horror movies, foreign conquest, end-of-the-world movies, and zombie films have shown more flexibility and willingness to deal with the pandemic.
According to the study, the film can give people an idea of the type of social conflicts that may occur amid chaos, what institutions can be trusted and what the world might look like if people act selfishly or in a cooperative manner, according to what was reported on the MSN website
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