Social Media Exposure, Psychological Distress, Emotion Regulation, and Depression During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Community Samples in China

Zhang, Yuting; Li, Rui-Ting; Sun, Xin; Peng, Ming; Xu, Li

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644899

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“…Therefore, cognitive reappraisal has a mediating impact on emotion in that it allows individuals to assume a positive rather than a negative perspective toward a certain event, which could help them alter their emotional response and promote their mental health ( McRae, 2016 ). In addition, our results also revealed that none of loneliness, depression or resilience in this study was associated with expressive suppression which was consistent with one recent study ( Tyra et al, 2021 ), but inconsistent with prior studies that expressive suppression was significantly associated with higher loneliness ( Gubler et al, 2020 ) and greater depression ( Zhang et al, 2021 ). One possibility was that there was no insufficient time to develop severe depressive symptoms which made the relationship of expressive suppression with loneliness and depression be difficult to be detected at the assessment.…”

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Young Adults’ Loneliness and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

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Front. Psychol.

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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019, millions of people have been infected with the disease. The COVID-19 pandemic also produced severe mental health problems, such as loneliness and depression. The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of cognitive reappraisal and moderating role of resilience in the relationship between young adults’ loneliness and depression during the pandemic by adopting a cross-sectional research approach. In March 2020, 654 young adults (18–29 years old) were recruited to complete the measures for loneliness, depression, emotion regulation, and resilience. Results found that loneliness was positively and moderately associated with depression (r = 0.531, p < 0.001), and that both loneliness and depression were separately negatively associated with cognitive reappraisal (r = −0.348, p < 0.001; r = −0.424, p < 0.001) and resilience (r = −0.436, p < 0.001; r = −0.419, p < 0.001). The results indicated that both loneliness and depression were not associated with expressive suppression (r = 0.067, p = 0.087; r = −0.002, p = 0.961). The moderated mediation model results revealed that only cognitive reappraisal partially mediated the relationship between loneliness and depression (b = −0.301; Boot 95% CI = −0.388, −0.215). In addition, the results of the moderated mediation model indicated that resilience moderated the association between loneliness and depression (b = 0.035, p < 0.001, Boot 95% CI = 0.014, 0.055), while also moderated the impact of cognitive reappraisal on depression (b = −0.031, p < 0.001, Boot 95% CI = −0.058, −0.005). These findings have practical implications that broaden our understanding of depression in young adults and shed light on how to enhance cognitive reappraisal and resilience as a means of combating depression in this age group during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Young Adults’ Loneliness and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

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“…Every time a vaccine-related adverse event occurs, it may cause a decline in positive sentiment among Chinese internet users on Weibo, which is highly contagious on social media. Meanwhile, spreading false and appalling information on Weibo, which may bring about feelings of depression and anxiety for certain groups of people [ 58 , 59 ]. Therefore, when a COVID-19 emergency occurred in their particular region, people’s sense of fear and self-protection led to increased positive emotions toward vaccination.…”

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The Impact of Public Health Events on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Chinese Social Media: National Infoveillance Study

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Feng²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to every country worldwide. A call for global vaccination for COVID-19 plays a pivotal role in the fight against this virus. With the development of COVID-19 vaccines, public willingness to get vaccinated has become an important public health concern, considering the vaccine hesitancy observed worldwide. Social media is powerful in monitoring public attitudes and assess the dissemination, which would provide valuable information for policy makers. Objective This study aimed to investigate the responses of vaccine positivity on social media when major public events (major outbreaks) or major adverse events related to vaccination (COVID-19 or other similar vaccines) were reported. Methods A total of 340,783 vaccine-related posts were captured with the poster’s information on Weibo, the largest social platform in China. After data cleaning, 156,223 posts were included in the subsequent analysis. Using pandas and SnowNLP Python libraries, posts were classified into 2 categories, positive and negative. After model training and sentiment analysis, the proportion of positive posts was computed to measure the public positivity toward the COVID-19 vaccine. Results The positivity toward COVID-19 vaccines in China tends to fluctuate over time in the range of 45.7% to 77.0% and is intuitively correlated with public health events. In terms of gender, males were more positive (70.0% of the time) than females. In terms of region, when regional epidemics arose, not only the region with the epidemic and surrounding regions but also the whole country showed more positive attitudes to varying degrees. When the epidemic subsided temporarily, positivity decreased with varying degrees in each region. Conclusions In China, public positivity toward COVID-19 vaccines fluctuates over time and a regional epidemic or news on social media may cause significant variations in willingness to accept a vaccine. Furthermore, public attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination vary from gender and region. It is crucial for policy makers to adjust their policies through the use of positive incentives with prompt responses to pandemic-related news to promote vaccination acceptance.

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“…In addition to passively following the COVID-19 preventive measures issued by governments and health authorities [e.g., the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), WHO], one common way to enhance pragmatic and epistemic control is to search for information in an attempt to instantly mitigate the heightened anxiety, threat, and fear elicited by the pandemic. In today's digital era, the sheer volume of information flow can be emotionally taxing for information consumers ( 10 ).…”

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Public Emotional and Coping Responses to the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Review and Recommendations

Ying

Cheng

2021

Front. Psychiatry

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Since its onset in early 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has adversely affected not only the physical but also the mental health of people worldwide. Healthcare professionals and laypersons have sought to learn more about this novel and highly transmissible disease to better understand its etiology, treatment, and prevention. However, information overload and misinformation related to COVID-19 have elicited considerable public anxiety and created additional health threats. Collectively, these problems have been recognized by the World Health Organization as an “infodemic.” This review provides an overview of the global challenges posed by the COVID-19 infodemic, and used the psychological entropy model as a guiding framework to explicate the potential causes of the infodemic and identify potential solutions to mitigate impacts on public health. We first examine the role of anxiety in information processing and then delineate the adverse impacts of the infodemic. Finally, we propose strategies to combat the infodemic at the public, community, and individual levels.

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Social Media Exposure, Psychological Distress, Emotion Regulation, and Depression During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Community Samples in China

Cited by 25 publications

References 76 publications

Young Adults’ Loneliness and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

Young Adults’ Loneliness and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

The Impact of Public Health Events on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Chinese Social Media: National Infoveillance Study

Public Emotional and Coping Responses to the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Review and Recommendations

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