The Impact of Social Support on Public Anxiety amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Ao, Yibin; Zhu, Hao; Meng, Fanrong; Wang, Yan; Ye, Gui; Yang, Linchuan; Dong, Na; Martek, Igor

doi:10.3390/ijerph17239097

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“…Survey from 506 university students in Turkey also justified the negative relationship between social support and quarantine-related anxiety (Yalcin et al, 2021 ). The empirical study conducted in the lockdown in China observed the negative correlation between social support and trait anxiety, and social support was negatively associated with state anxiety (Ao et al, 2020 ). Despite these findings, the majority of research examining the associations between social support and anxiety in COVID-19 has focused on the general social support, rather than specific social support from various sources.…”

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Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

Peng

Tao

2021

Curr Psychol

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With the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict implementation of quarantine policy, the levels of anxiety among university students surged in the lockdown period. Previous studies confirmed the effectiveness of social support in mitigating anxiety, so offering social support should be of high priority in COVID-19, especially in quarantine. However, various coping strategies against the pandemic may explain the link between social support and anxiety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety, identifying the potential mediating effect of coping strategy between social support and anxiety during the COVID-19 quarantine. Home-quarantined Chinese university students ( N = 2640; 68.79% female) completed online ratings of social support, coping, and anxiety from February 21st to 24th, 2020, when they had been confined to their homes in the peak of the pandemic. Sex and academic attainment being covariates, path analysis with parallel mediation were conducted using “lavaan” package in R environment. Anxiety was significantly negatively related to subjective support and counselor support, while family support did not demonstrate substantive associations with anxiety. The mediating role of cognitive coping was found between all the three social support sources and anxiety. Emotional coping and behavioral coping were found to partially mediate the relationship between subjective support and anxiety, fully mediate the associations of family support and anxiety. However, the impact of counselor support on anxiety was not found to be mediated by emotional coping and behavioral coping. This large-scale online study provides initial evidence that various coping strategies may mediate the relationship between three sources of social support and anxiety in quarantine to some extent. Given that coping against COVID-19 is a valuable reasearch goal upon the global ongoing challenge, the findings will shed more light on the mechanism in the link between coping, social support, and anxiety.

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Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

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Tao

2021

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“…This observation reveals that COVID-19 considerably affects the anxiety level of the respondents at its initial stage (the data collection period). Moreover, the detection rates of without anxiety, mild anxiety, moderate anxiety, and severe anxiety symptoms were 0.5, 19.8, 68.5, and 11.1%, respectively ( Ao et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…The respondents covered a wide range of locations: 33 provincial administrative regions in China. More information regarding this online survey can be found in our previous publication ( Ao et al, 2020 ). Table 1 shows the demographic information of the 736 respondents.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Chinese Residents in Its Initial Stage

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This study aims to investigate the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Chinese public’s mental health during its early stage. We collected the data through an online questionnaire survey. Specifically, we adopted the impact of event scale-revised (IES-R) and state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) to assess symptomatic responses to exposure to traumatic life events and public anxiety, respectively, in the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Then, we evaluated the differences in the scores among various socio-demographic groups using Kruskal-Wakkis H tests and t-tests and analyzed the IES-R, state anxiety (SA) score, and trait anxiety (TA) score using the Pearson correlation analysis. Finally, we conducted a path analysis to determine the mediating role of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms (measured by the IES-R) in the relationship between TA and SA. The results show that the average of the SA and TA scores were 48.0 ± 10.4 and 38.0 ± 8.2, respectively; the respondents who suffered from mild, moderate, and severe psychological impacts because of the health crisis accounted for 21.9, 5.2, and 13.1%, respectively; farmers have the highest IES-R score than others; people with the highest income have the lowest SA level; a significant positive correlation existed between the IES-R and STAI scores; and TA produces both direct and indirect (through the IES-R) effects on SA. Overall, the general Chinese public exhibited much higher anxiety levels than normal in the early days of the pandemic outbreak. Accordingly, we strongly recommend psychological counseling and intervention support to mitigate the adverse psychological impacts of such an event.

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“…Penelitian yang serupa juga dilakukan oleh Ozmete & Pak (2020) menunjukkan bahwa dukungan sosial berdampak pada tingkat kecemasan seseorang di masa pendemi Covid-19. Tingkat kecemasan akan berkurang ketika dukungan sosial yang dirasakan meningkat (Ozmete & Pak, 2020;Ao, Zhu, Meng, Wang, Ye, Yang, Dong & Martek, 2020). Dukungan sosial dapat diperoleh dari berbagai sumber yaitu keluarga, teman, komunitas dan orangorang yang terkait dengan diri.…”

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Dukungan Sosial Dan Religiusitas Terhadap Kecemasan Masyarakat Yang Tinggal Sendiri Selama Masa Pandemi Covid-19

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2021

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Masyarakat merasakan kecemasan selama masa pandemi Covid-19, khususnya seseorang yang tinggal sendiri. Kecemasan yang dirasakan mungkin saja disebabkan oleh dukungan sosial dan tingkat religiusitas yang dimiliki. Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji pengaruh dukungan sosial dan religiusitas terhadap kecemasan masyarakat yang tinggal sendiri selama masa pandemi Covid-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan pengambilan data (n=151) dengan teknik purposive sampling. Partisipan diperoleh melalui kuesioner online yang disebarkan dan sesuai dengan kriteria yang telah ditetapkan oleh peneliti. Kriteria partisipan yaitu berusia minimal 18 tahun dan tinggal sendiri selama masa pandemi Covid 19. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui koesioner yang didistribusikan secara online dalam bentuk google form dan disebarkan melalui beberapa media sosial, yaitu instagram, whatshapp dan facebook. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah adalah skala likert. Ada 3 skala yang digunakan yaitu skala dukungan sosial, skala religiusitas dan skala kecamasan. Analisis data yang digunakan yaitu multiple regression. Hasil uji multiple regression menunjukkan bahwa dukungan sosial dan religiusitas signifikan berpengaruh terhadap kecemasan masyarakat yang tinggal sendiri selama masa pandemi Covid-19. Dukungan sosial dan religiusitas dapat mengatasi kecemasan dalam menghadapi pandemi Covid-19.

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The Impact of Social Support on Public Anxiety amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Cited by 37 publications

References 63 publications

Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Chinese Residents in Its Initial Stage

Dukungan Sosial Dan Religiusitas Terhadap Kecemasan Masyarakat Yang Tinggal Sendiri Selama Masa Pandemi Covid-19

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