Is Lockdown Bad for Social Anxiety in COVID-19 Regions?: A National Study in The SOR Perspective
| Autor: | Xiaojun Zhang, Lei Zheng, JiYoon Lim, Miao Miao, Shu Nie, Maorui Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Mediation (statistics)
Distancing Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pneumonia Viral lcsh:Medicine Anxiety Models Psychological Article Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences lockdown measures 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pandemics SARS-CoV-2 lcsh:R Social anxiety Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Quarantine pandemic COVID-19 SOR model The Conceptual Framework Construal level theory medicine.symptom Coronavirus Infections Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 4561, p 4561 (2020) Volume 17 Issue 12 |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | Lockdown measures have been widely used to control and prevent virus transmission in pandemic regions. However, the psychological effects of lockdown measures have been neglected, and the related theoretical research lags behind the practice. The present study aimed to better understand the mechanism of social anxiety in pandemic regions where the lockdown measures were imposed, based on the conceptual framework of the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR). For that, this research investigated how lockdown measures and psychological distance influenced social anxiety in the pandemic region. The Chinese national data was analyzed for the outcome. The results showed that (1) psychological distance mediated the relationship between pandemic COVID-19 severity and social anxiety, (2) lockdown measures buffered the detrimental effect of the COVID-19 pandemic severity on social anxiety, (3) lockdown measures moderated the mediation effect of psychological distancing on social anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In conclusion, under the SOR framework, the lockdown measures had a buffer effect on social anxiety in pandemic regions, with the mediating role of psychological distancing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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