Television, news media, social media and adolescents’ and young adults’ violations of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: A prototype willingness model

Vranken, Ilse; Brimmel, Nausikaä; Vandenbosch, Laura; Trekels, Jolien

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2022.101817

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“…And we discovered that awareness about COVID-19 increased willingness to adhere to being in quarantine; this implies that providing information to the general public regarding the disease will significantly reduce anxiety and locally spreading myths, thereby increasing the containment effort, which has been well reported in previous studies. 9,10 According to previous studies, those who had been quarantined had more psychological symptoms than nonquarantined individuals, including emotional disturbance, tension, mood fluctuations, irritation, and wrath. 5,11 In our study, we discovered that those in quarantine felt loneliness and anxiety, as well as fear of dying, loss of emotional control, anxiety about being unable to access health care, and worry about the availability of food and water.…”

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Psychological response and perception to lockdown among keralites during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Francis,

Thomas,

Aboobacker

2023

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Kerala, which has a population density of 860 people per square kilometre, has been able to significantly curb the spread of COVID-19. This was a result of people in the State, politics, and social settings. Previous outbreaks showed that psychological symptoms could be severe and last longer than physical illness. This study examines the sources of information as well as the peritraumatic distress, attitude towards lockdown. Methods: 2335 individuals under lockdown were given a 32-item questionnaire over the internet from March to August 2020. This covers demographic data, days spent in quarantine, attitude, and awareness, adherence to lockdown procedures, and PDI for measuring psychological distress. Overall score was calculated and associations found using the Chi-square test in SPSS 20. Results: The average quarantine period lasted 10.12 days. 77.9% of individuals reported high stress, with a mean PDI score of 47.73. The psychological distress was more severe for those who were female and were placed in quarantine. The PDI score has associations with gender, education, health care access, loneliness, and the propensity to not adhere to lockdown measures. 89% of the responders expressed concern for their safety. We discovered that being in quarantine had a significant association with loneliness, concern about getting medical care, and resource accessibility. Conclusions: The population had high levels of perceived stress during the pandemic. The detrimental effects of COVID-19 do not just fit into morbidity and mortality but have wider implications for mental health issues that require proper attention.

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Psychological response and perception to lockdown among keralites during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Francis,

Thomas,

Aboobacker

2023

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…During the COVID-19 lockdown period, young people often turned to social media to support relationship building and maintenance (Abbas et al, 2021;Lisitsa et al, 2020). Research also suggests that young people often shared social media content relating to their mental health problems or to complain about the governmental COVID-19 lockdown regulations (Saha et al, 2020;Vranken et al, 2022). However, whilst there was an increase in negative content shared during the lockdown periods (e.g., content related to mental health issues, e.g., Saha et al, 2020), positive-biased content also emerged on social media (e.g., Vranken et al, 2022).…”

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Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown

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Social media fulfil emerging adults’ self-presentation needs, and young people often selectively present positive self-portrayals on social media (i.e., exciting social life, successful professional life, and being happy). Yet, being exposed to the positive self-portrays of others can sometimes relate to mental health pressures. In exceptional times of social deprivation (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), such relations may differ. This cross-sectional study among 415 emerging adults (Mage = 24.27, SD = 3.19; Women = 64.10%) examined the interrelations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and mental health during an intense COVID-19 lockdown period. The study revealed that exposure to such content related to lower levels of mental health. No support emerged for the moderating role of experiencing negative life events, specifically the experience with COVID-19 illnesses in one’s environment, or a three-way interaction with such experience and gender. These results provide evidence to suggest that specific social circumstances may lead exposure to positive self-portrayals on social media to relate to lower mental health. Specifying such circumstances can help the field to move away from the current inconsistent findings concerning social media/mental health relations.

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“…Namely, mass media reports potentially modify people's knowledge and opinions of "emerging infectious diseases, thus changing the public attitudes and behaviours" [8] and in the time of the pandemic, media usage has increased dramatically. Approximately "58%/58% and 48%/43% of adolescents and young adults had spent more time on respectively social media and streaming/TV than before the pandemic" and around 67% of youth informed themselves regularly via the media in comparison with the period before the pandemic [9]. This is a very topical and trending issue that has been largely investigated in the past few years.…”

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“…Their findings and analyses reveal that "adolescents use both traditional news (e.g., TV or newspapers) and social media news to acquire information about COVID-19" and highlight that "trust in government leaders plays a critical role in COVID-19 public health messaging for adolescents". Moreover, Vranken et al (2022) constructed a prototype willingness model (PWM) in a cross-sectional study among Belgian adolescents and young adults to detect the "associations between proand antigovernmental (social) media and youth's violations of the lockdown measures" [9]. Their study is very interesting since it sheds light on the implications for media research and health campaigns.…”

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Mass media usage from emerging adults in times of crisis: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Apasieva¹,

Čiković²,

Mitreva³

et al. 2023

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The objective of this research paper is to investigate the media consumption habits of emerging adults during the Covid-19 crisis, with a particular focus on traditional media. A Google Search survey was conducted, in which 284 respondents participated. The survey aimed to gather information on various aspects of their media consumption, such as demographic information, previous experience with mass media communication, frequency of usage of different mass media, perception of the significance of mass media, and perception of TV as a mass medium on several topics. The results of the study indicated that TV was the most frequently used medium among the respondents, given its importance in disseminating information and their previous experience with it. Radio was the second most popular medium, followed by print media. However, a closer examination of the TV data revealed that only 4.6% of the respondents completely agreed that TV messages were a good source of information, and only 8.5% had complete trust in the credibility of the information provided on TV. Additionally, only 5.3% of the respondents had a completely positive attitude towards the TV. In summary, although TV was the preferred medium compared to radio and print media, emerging adults did not have a wholly positive attitude towards TV, nor did they perceive it as a reliable source of information.

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Television, news media, social media and adolescents’ and young adults’ violations of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: A prototype willingness model

Cited by 9 publications

References 62 publications

Psychological response and perception to lockdown among keralites during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Psychological response and perception to lockdown among keralites during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown

Mass media usage from emerging adults in times of crisis: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

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