The Effect of New Media News Push on College Students' Anxiety

Abstract

With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world, new media platforms have played an important role in news feeds related to the epidemic with their quick and concise features. Such major public health emergencies not only cause great losses to the national economy, but also affect the public psychology. Based on the theory of expanded parallel process model (EPPM), through the questionnaire survey method to collect the relevant data, and the use of SPSS software for data statistics and analysis, build new crown epidemic situations of new media news push on college students' emotional impact model, and using correlation and regression analysis, explore the new media influence on college students' anxiety of epidemic information push. The results show that during the epidemic period, the surveyed college students have a strong initiative to contact and spread the epidemic information through social media, accounting for a large proportion of them. Browsing the epidemic information has become their daily routine. During the epidemic period, epidemic-related information showed the characteristics of all-platform dissemination, and college students generally expressed trust in epidemic-related information spread on social media. In terms of the mental health level of college students during the epidemic period, those who showed anxiety, depression and stress have a large proportion in the surveyed college students.