catastrophismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

catastrophism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 catastrophisms)

1. (geology) The doctrine that sudden catastrophes, rather than continuous change, cause the main features of the Earth's crust.

   Antonym: uniformitarianism

2. (biology) The doctrine that, in addition to the more gradual effects of evolution, huge catastrophic events shape the earth's flora and fauna by causing major die-offs which make way for the emergence of new organisms.
3. The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.
   • 2018, René Mauricio Barría, Cohort Studies in Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 55:

     A therapeutic programme based on pain education showed significant improvements regarding pain intensity, disability, catastrophism, depression, anxiety and health, with few positive results on anguish and cognition.

   • 2020, Carmen Ramírez-Maestre; Madelon Peters; John Andrew Sturgeon; Rocio de la Vega, Resilience Resources in Chronic Pain Patients The Path to Adaptation, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 29:

     However, we did not obtain significant relationships with pain catastrophizing. […] On the contrary, catastrophism is measured in a general context, with no motivational context, and without related situations where goals can compete.

等位語

• anastrophism

派生語

• neocatastrophism

関連する語

• catastrophist