Bridging the Psychosocial Distance

Abstract

Abstract Despite the gradual easing of the pandemic, it is important for humanity to learn from this experience. This study focused on whether survivors of pandemic experienced psychosocial distance. Previous scientific studies on survivors have focused on the recovery of physical health while paying less attention to mental health and social integration. This article adopted a multidisciplinary perspective to investigate whether survivors suffered psychosocial distance by examining representative social survey data with an embedded vignette experiment on social interaction. Looking towards potential pandemics in the future, human society must learn lessons from the past and the present to avoid psychosocial distance during pandemics by improving formal institutions and strengthening information dissemination