The impact of PTSD symptoms on post-disaster consumption: tertiary victims of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Türkiye

The findings extend terror-management, control-restoration, and meaning-making accounts to vicarious-trauma contexts and identify media regulation as a key boundary condition. Practically, they support public health risk communication that normalizes selective exposure, ethical preparedness that restores agency and wellbeing without excess, and interventions that channel recovery toward responsible self-care and value-aligned choices.