Do Pandemics Trigger Death Thoughts Study 1

Background:
These studies aim to investigate the effects of pandemics of varying severity on death thought accessibility in two studies while controlling for health anxiety. Study 1 (n = 203) examined the effect of standard MS, severe pandemic, mild pandemic, and dental conditions on death thought accessibility as assessed by the death word fragment task (DWFT).  Study 2 (n = 163) was conducted with more sensitive death thought accessibility measures such as the lexical decision task and dot probe task.
Study 1 hypothesized that severe pandemic condition and standard MS condition will yield significantly higher levels of death cognitions than the mild pandemic and dental conditions after a time delay, and continued to do so when we control for health anxiety.
Information pertaining to Study 2 is located at: https://doi.org/10.25903/cn68-9963 
This data record contains:
1 x SPSS (.sav) file containing input data and calculation of number of death words completed used in analysis. File is also available in Open Document (.ods) format.
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Software/equipment used to collect the data: Qualtrics
Software/equipment used to analyse the data: SPSS