Exposure to <scp>COVID</scp>‐19‐related media content and mental health during the initial outbreak of <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 in China

Liu, Tour; Zhang, Shu; Zhang, Huan

doi:10.1111/sjop.12805

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“…The Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) had two ten-item subscales for evaluating respondents’ positive affect and negative affect [ 25 ]. The present study utilized the Chinese version of PANAS [ 26 ], which was confirmed to be reliable and valid in many other studies [ 27 , 28 ]. Items were rated on a fivepoint scale, from 1 (almost none) to 5 (extremely much).…”

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What Are the Differences in Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on Social Media and Those Who Did Not?

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Xue

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Psychiatry Investig

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Objective During the lockdown of cities and home quarantine, media became the only way for people to conveniently get coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)-related information. And media engagement was closely related to psychological outcomes. But fewer researchers took COVID-19-related posting behaviors into consideration. Therefore, the present study aimed at examining the differences in psychological outcomes between people who posted COVID-19-related content on social media and those who did not.Methods The present study included 917 participants (304 males, 613 females) who had answered the questionnaires of media engagement, positive affect, negative affect, depression, anxiety, stress, satisfaction with life, death anxiety, and meaning in life.Results Results of t-tests showed that the Post group had lower levels of negative affect, anxiety, stress, and death anxiety than the Not Post (Npost) group. Network comparison tests indicated that the Npost group’s network and the Post group’s network differed in global strength, two edge-weights, and node centrality indices.Conclusion The results indicated that more attention should be paid to people who did not post any COVID-19-related content, especially when they have higher levels of stress and depression to prevent comorbidities. And for people who posted content, more attention should be paid when they have a higher level of negative affect.

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“…25 The present study utilized the Chinese version of PANAS, 26 which was confirmed to be reliable and valid in many other studies. 27,28 Items were rated on a fivepoint scale, from 1 (almost none) to 5 (extremely much). Higher scores indicate higher levels of positive affect or negative affect.…”

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What Are the Differences in Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on Social Media and Those Who Did Not?

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Xue

et al. 2023

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“…Exploring well-being differences between four different categories of COVID-19 media exposure (ranging from slightly to highly), Liu et al (2022) found that while stress, anxiety, and depression did not differ, positive and negative affect were significantly higher in the highly exposed group compared to the other three. While seemingly contradictory, these results would suggest that individuals are engaging with this technology in a variety of ways not disconnected from the types of content they are exposed to and actively seeking out.…”

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Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19

Landrum,

Garza

2024

Cyberpsychology

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Previous research establishing the connection between social media and well-being is particularly relevant in light of findings of increased social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic. While research has fairly consistently established a relationship between media use, anxiety, depression and other indices of well-being, it has been less consistent in tying these variations to technology and user related factors. Researchers advocating for the interdependence of these factors suggest that the way users attune to the medium is decisive regarding its meaning for the user. Taking up the call for research to explore the dynamic interplay between users and technology and its relationship to well-being, we adopted a phenomenological approach using a reflexive thematic analysis method to highlight our participants’ concerns when using and engaging with social media during COVID-19. Specifically, we illuminate how participants are attuning to social media such that they experience it unsettlingly. Results revealed being unsettled during COVID-19 in the face of social media comprises three distinct movements: rupture, recollection, and resolution. Being unsettled emerges when an individual is experientially efficaciously detached from the past and its future instead engulfed in an encompassing and expanding now that is unclear and ambiguous. These results shed light on the inconsistencies found in previous literature and the importance of an experiential dimension in psychological research.

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“…Furthermore, several of these China-based contributions use data collected during the pandemic through non-representative and mostly online surveys (e.g. [24] [25] [26] [27]). Finally, there is a large and growing literature investigating the effects of the pandemic on mental health using data from several countries ([28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]).…”

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COVID-19 and Mental Health in China: Effects of Personality and Demographics

Zhang¹,

Battisti

Proto

2023

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China was the first country affected by the COVID-19 virus and it reacted strongly in the first months of 2020. This paper presents new evidence on the deterioration in mental health in China between 2018 and 2020. Using two waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) we can follow the same individuals pre and during the pandemic periods. We find clear evidence of a moderate level of mental health deterioration between 2018 and 2020. The prevalence of severe cases of depression, measured using an eight-item version of the common CES-D scale, increased from 6.33% in 2018 to 7.54% in 2020; quantifiable as around a 19% increase. This deterioration is higher for individuals who are subject to strict lockdowns, about 0.3 symptoms more on average, and it is stronger among those who already reported symptoms of depression in the 2018 wave of data. The effects we find are larger for individuals with more open personalities: one standard deviation of the Openness trait corresponds to 0.08 more symptoms, while more Neurotic individuals do not seem to be more affected. Younger cohorts and individuals with lower levels of education are more affected. Males seem slightly more affected than females, although this difference is statistically non-significant.

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Exposure to COVID‐19‐related media content and mental health during the initial outbreak of COVID‐19 in China

Cited by 4 publications

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What Are the Differences in Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on Social Media and Those Who Did Not?

What Are the Differences in Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on Social Media and Those Who Did Not?

Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19

COVID-19 and Mental Health in China: Effects of Personality and Demographics

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