Mental Health of Chinese Online Networkers under COVID-19 : A Sociological Analysis of Survey Data

This paper reports the results of a recent survey of Chinese WeChat networkers (n = 2015, August 2020) about China's mental health conditions under COVID-19. The purpose of the survey was to measure symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization by using a standard 18-item battery and assess how the results were related to an individual's socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and social capital under an ongoing pandemic. The survey reveals that the pandemic has had a significant impact, as the respondents had more serious mental symptoms when their residential communities exhibited a greater exposure to the spread of the virus. The socioeconomic status of the respondents was negatively associated with the mental symptoms. It modified the impact of COVID-19, and its effect was substantially mediated by measures of lifestyle and social capital.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

International journal of environmental research and public health - 17(2020), 23 vom: 28. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xiao, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Bian, Yanjie [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Lifestyle
Mental health
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Social capital
Socioeconomic status

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.12.2020

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijerph17238843

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318270013