Emotional well-being in COVID-19 mass quarantine: the role of personal response and life activity: a 14-day diary study in China

Ma, Shaozhuang; Zeng, Weilong; Borges, Andreia; Xu, Yiqing; Zhang, Jinrui

doi:10.1080/08870446.2021.1934470

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“…The COVID-19-related emotional demands experienced by nurses have been widely documented [2,11,14]. Hu et al [2] interviewed front-line nurses working in Wuhan, China, and concluded that 14.3%, 10.7%, and 91.2% of nurses reported moderate and high levels of anxiety, depression, and fear, respectively.…”

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“…(4) higher risk of infection due to working exposure [11], and worry about family members' infection due to their work exposure or isolation from family for safety reasons [9,[11][12][13]. (5) pandemic-related emotional demands such as feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, depression, and fear [2,14]. (6) shortage of experienced staff and medical resources supplies like face masks, and personal protective equipment [7].…”

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How Involvement in COVID-19-Related Work Changed Nurses' Job Demands, Job Resources, and Their Associations with Burnout: Evidence from China <sup><a class="tippyShow" data-tippy-arrow="true" data-tippy-content="The results reported in this paper come from the dissertation of the first author, a master graduated from Iscte-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and SMU (Southern Medical University, China) program. An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at the 2023 IACMR

Wang¹,

Ma²,

Liao³

2023

OBM Neurobiol

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China adopted a “Zero-COVID” policy for nearly three years, making Chinese healthcare workers constantly involved in COVID-19-related work. However, little is known about how involvement in COVID-19-related work shaped Chinese nurses’ burnout. This study explores how nurses’ job demands and job resources are associated with their burnout by considering high and low frequent involvements in COVID-19-related work in China. This study employed a cross-sessional design. Guided by Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model, we developed hypotheses and tested them using regression analysis with a sample of 336 nurses working in four public hospitals in Guangdong, China. Overall sample results revealed: 1) frequency of involvement in COVID-19-related work was related to a higher level of workload; 2) nurses’ burnout was positively associated with workload, emotional demands, and work-family conflict, and negatively associated with a relationship with supervisor, remuneration, and independence of work; 3) emotional intelligence mitigated the positive relationship between workload and burnout. Comparison analysis showed significant differences due to the frequency of involvement in COVID-19 work. In the high-frequency group (N = 108), 1) emotional demands were related to a higher level of burnout, and emotional intelligence moderately accentuates the positive relationship between the two variables; 2) remuneration was related to a lower level of burnout; 3) nurses reported higher levels of workload and relationship with the supervisor. In the low-frequency group (N = 147), independence of work was related to a lower level of burnout; We found some evidence that nurses’ job demands and job resources and their associations with burnout differed due to their frequency of involvement in COVID-19-related work. Implications for policy-making and theoretical contribution are discussed.

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Section: Nurse Job Demandsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Involvement in COVID-19-Related Work Changed Nurses' Job Demands, Job Resources, and Their Associations with Burnout: Evidence from China <sup><a class="tippyShow" data-tippy-arrow="true" data-tippy-content="The results reported in this paper come from the dissertation of the first author, a master graduated from Iscte-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and SMU (Southern Medical University, China) program. An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at the 2023 IACMR

Wang¹,

Ma²,

Liao³

2023

OBM Neurobiol

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“…The detrimental effects on mental health caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are rampant [42,52,62], although it has been a long time since its first outbreak in December 2019 [74]. In light of the virus transmission mechanism and the unprecedented sphere of influence, quarantine, a direct and effective social distancing strategy, is adopted by most governments around the world [73].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unpacking the dynamics of emotional disclosure can shed light on significant implications for tracking public emotional wellness and detecting signs of distress, thereby supporting health interventions and relevant policy-making. Nevertheless, previous research has primarily focused on the overall emotional patterns throughout the entire epidemic (e.g., several months or years) [6,69] rather than quarantine, or within a specific duration of quarantine (e.g., a 14-day quarantine study) [52]. There is still a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding how the public discloses nuanced emotions during quarantine on social media, and how these subtle emotion dimensions change over time and vary between different quarantine durations (e.g., 7-day quarantine or 14-day quarantine).…”

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Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media

Deng,

He,

2023

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of Chinese CHI

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Quarantine is a widely-adopted measure during health crises caused by highly-contagious diseases like COVID-19, yet it poses critical challenges to public mental health. Given this context, emotional disclosure on social media in the form of keeping a diary emerges as a popular way for individuals to express emotions and record their mental health status. However, the exploration of emotional disclosure via diary-keeping on social media during quarantine is underexplored, understanding which could be beneficial to facilitate emotional connections and enlighten health intervention measures. Focusing on this particular form of self-disclosure, this work proposes a quantitative approach to figure out the prevalence and changing patterns of emotional disclosure during quarantine, and the possible factors contributing to the negative emotions. We collected 58, 796 posts with the "Quarantine Diary" keyword on Weibo, a popular social media website in China. Through text classification, we capture diverse emotion categories that characterize public emotion disclosure during quarantine, such as annoyed, anxious, boring, happy, hopeful and appreciative. Based on temporal analysis, we uncover the changing patterns of emotional disclosure from long-term perspectives and period-based perspectives (e.g., the gradual decline of all negative emotions and the upsurge of the annoyed emotion near the end of quarantine). Leveraging topic modeling, we also encapsulate the possible influencing factors of negative emotions, such as freedom restriction and solitude, and uncertainty of infection and supply. We reflect on how our findings could deepen the understanding of mental health on social media and further provide practical and design implications to mitigate mental health issues during quarantine. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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“…Therefore, it is important to explore public emotional reactions to these anti-epidemic strategies during the pandemic. A previous study analyzed the emotions of Internet users on social distancing, lockdown, home confinement, and quarantine (Su et al, 2020;Ma et al, 2021;Shen et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021). However, studies that explore the difference of public emotions expressed by social media users toward a series of anti-epidemic strategies and major events, which received more attention and discussion during the pandemic at the national level in China, are limited.…”

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Capturing the Trajectory of Psychological Status and Analyzing Online Public Reactions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Through Weibo Posts in China

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When a major, sudden infectious disease occurs, people tend to react emotionally and display reactions such as tension, anxiety, fear, depression, and somatization symptoms. Social media played a substantial awareness role in developing countries during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study aimed to analyze public opinion regarding COVID-19 and to explore the trajectory of psychological status and online public reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic by examining online content from Weibo in China. This study consisted of three steps: first, Weibo posts created during the pandemic were collected and preprocessed on a large scale; second, public sentiment orientation was classified as “optimistic/pessimistic/neutral” orientation via natural language processing and manual determination procedures; and third, qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted to reveal the trajectory of public psychological status and online public reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public psychological status differed in different periods of the pandemic (from December 2019 to May 2020). The newly confirmed cases had an almost 1-month lagged effect on public psychological status. Among the 15 events with high impact indexes or related to government decisions, there were 10 optimism orientation > pessimism orientation (OP) events (2/3) and 5 pessimism orientation > optimism orientation (PO) events (1/3). Among the top two OP events, the high-frequency words were “race against time” and “support,” while in the top two PO events, the high-frequency words were “irrationally purchase” and “pass away.” We proposed a hypothesis that people developed negative self-perception when they received PO events, but their cognition was developed by how these external stimuli were processed and evaluated. These results offer implications for public health policymakers on understanding public psychological status from social media. This study demonstrates the benefits of promoting psychological healthcare and hygiene activity in the early period and improving risk perception for the public based on public opinion and the coping abilities of people. Health managers should focus on disseminating socially oriented strategies to improve the policy literacy of Internet users, thereby facilitating the disease prevention work for the COVID-19 pandemic and other major public events.

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Emotional well-being in COVID-19 mass quarantine: the role of personal response and life activity: a 14-day diary study in China

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media

Capturing the Trajectory of Psychological Status and Analyzing Online Public Reactions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Through Weibo Posts in China

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