COVID-19 Stress and Depression: Examining Social Media, Traditional Media, and Interpersonal Communication

First, Jennifer M.; Shin, Haejung; Ranjit, Yerina S.; Houston, J. Brian

doi:10.1080/15325024.2020.1835386

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“…It is possible that more explicit stress communication is a marker of participants' higher distress in front of the COVID-19 emergency. In line with a previous study, in fact, interpersonal communication with significant others about COVID-19 was associated with greater perceived stress (First et al, 2020).…”

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Together Against COVID-19 Concerns: The Role of the Dyadic Coping Process for Partners’ Psychological Well-Being During the Pandemic

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The situation caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been representing a great source of concern and a challenge to the psychological well-being of many individuals around the world. For couples in particular, this extraordinary rise in concern, combined with the stress posed by the virus containment measures, such as prolonged cohabitation and lack of support networks, may have increased the likelihood of couple problems. At the same time, however, COVID-19 concerns may have been a stimulus to activate couples’ stress management processes. A couple’s resource, which may have an important role in dealing with COVID-19 concerns and stress, is dyadic coping, i.e., the process through which partners face stress together. Drawing on a sample of 1,823 Italian individuals involved in a couple relationship, the current study tested a serial mediation model in which concerns about COVID-19 predicted psychological well-being, through both explicit stress communication and perceived partner dyadic coping responses. In addition, the study explored whether this dyadic coping process functioned the same way in satisfied and dissatisfied couples. Results showed that concerns about the situation related to COVID-19 significantly threatened individuals’ psychological well-being. However, these concerns positively predicted explicit stress communication, which in turn positively predicted perceived partner’s dyadic coping responses, which finally positively predicted psychological well-being. In addition, in the group of dissatisfied individuals, the association between explicit stress communication and perceived partners’ dyadic coping responses was not significant. The present study adds to the research on couples’ coping by testing for the first time the whole theoretical model of dyadic coping and does so during a global emergency situation. The study also suggests key components of preventive interventions for individuals in couples.

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Together Against COVID-19 Concerns: The Role of the Dyadic Coping Process for Partners’ Psychological Well-Being During the Pandemic

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“…Among the various media exposure forms, only social media was significantly associated with higher acute stress and the odds of probable ASD. The result is consistent with the previous findings that social media users had more psychological problems compared with traditional media users during the COVID-19 pandemic ( Chao et al, 2020 ; First et al, 2020 ). Social media was usually regarded as the most extensively used medium for acquiring information about COVID-19 without time and site limits.…”

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“…For example, Rodgers et al (2012) found that the use of traditional media (e.g., television) was related to more psychological distress among adults compared with new media (e.g., Internet) following the March 2011 Japan Earthquake. However, First et al (2020) found that social media use was associated with higher levels of stress and depression than traditional media use following the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the associations between media exposure forms and acute stress responses deserve further exploration.…”

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Media exposure predicts acute stress and probable acute stress disorder during the early COVID-19 outbreak in China

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Background The COVID-19 has led to unprecedented psychological stress on the general public. However, the associations between media exposure to COVID-19 and acute stress responses have not been explored during the early COVID-19 outbreak in China. Methods An online survey was conducted to investigate the relationships between media exposure to COVID-19 and acute stress responses, and to recognize associated predictors of acute stress responses on a sample of 1,450 Chinese citizens from February 3 to February 10, 2020. Media exposure questionnaire related to COVID-19 was developed to assess media exposure time, media exposure forms and media exposure content. The Stanford Acute Stress Reaction Questionnaire (SASRQ) was used to measure acute stress responses, including continuous acute stress symptom scores and the risk of probable acute stress disorder (ASD). A series of regression analyses were conducted. Results Longer media exposure time and social media use were associated with higher acute stress and probable ASD. Viewing the situation of infected patients was associated with higher acute stress, whereas viewing the latest news about pandemic data was associated with lower odds of probable ASD. Being females, living in Hubei Province, someone close to them diagnosed with COVID-19, history of mental illness, recent adverse life events and previous collective trauma exposure were risk factors for acute stress responses. Conclusions These findings confirmed the associations between indirect media exposure to pandemic events and acute stress responses. The governments should be aware of the negative impacts of disaster-related media exposure and implement appropriate interventions to promote psychological well-being following pandemic events.

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“…As of February 2021, the respiratory disease caused by this novel virus (COVID-19) has resulted in multiple waves of outbreaks in the U.S. resulting in over 440,000 deaths and more than 25 million cases ( https://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us ). In addition to death and physical illness, COVID-19 has exerted a significant public mental health impact, resulting in increased individual stress, anxiety, depression, and grief reactions ( Eisma & Tamminga, 2020 ; First et al, 2020 ).…”

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COVID-19 Communication Ecology: Visualizing Communication Resource Connections During a Public Health Emergency Using Network Analysis

Houston

Thorson

Kim

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American Behavioral Scientist

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The COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019 and soon became a global pandemic, resulting in major public health consequences for countries across the world. As the COVID-19 outbreak evolved, individuals were challenged to understand the risk of COVID-19 and to identify ways to stay safe. This understanding was accomplished through COVID-19 communication ecologies that consist of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated communication resources. In the current study, we examine the U.S. COVID-19 communication ecology in September 2021. We introduce the communication ecology network (CEN) model, which posits that similar useful communication resources will cluster in a communication ecology, and we use network analysis for visualization of the ecology. Our results indicate a robust COVID-19 communication ecology. The most important communication resources in the ecology were partisan and organizational communication resources. We identify and discuss five clusters within the COVID-19 communication ecology and examine how use of each of these clusters is associated with belief in COVID-19 misinformation. Our use of network analysis illustrates benefits of this analytical approach to studying communication ecologies.

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COVID-19 Stress and Depression: Examining Social Media, Traditional Media, and Interpersonal Communication

Cited by 68 publications

References 34 publications

Together Against COVID-19 Concerns: The Role of the Dyadic Coping Process for Partners’ Psychological Well-Being During the Pandemic

Together Against COVID-19 Concerns: The Role of the Dyadic Coping Process for Partners’ Psychological Well-Being During the Pandemic

Media exposure predicts acute stress and probable acute stress disorder during the early COVID-19 outbreak in China

COVID-19 Communication Ecology: Visualizing Communication Resource Connections During a Public Health Emergency Using Network Analysis

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