Effects of Wise Intervention on Perceived Discrimination Among College Students Returning Home From Wuhan During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ting Lu¹  Zihan Guo¹  Hao Li¹  Xinyu Zhang¹  Zhihong Ren²  Weiping Yang¹  Liuqing Wei¹  Ling Huang¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University;Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, Ministry of Education, School of Psychology at Central China Normal University

关键词: COVID-19;    perceived discrimination;    perceived social support;    wise intervention;    mental health;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689251

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

At the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, college students returning home from Wuhan, Hubei Province, experienced various degrees of discrimination. This study first investigates perceived discrimination among college students returning home from Wuhan. Then, an experimental method is used to investigate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to reduce the perceived discrimination among those who returned to towns outside of Hubei Province. A total of 63 college students participated in the experiment. In the experimental group ( N = 31), a wise intervention based on reading and writing was adopted to intervene in perceived discrimination among the participants. The results showed that the perceived discrimination among students returning from Wuhan to towns outside of Hubei Province was significantly higher than that among students returning to towns within Hubei Province. The wise intervention reduced the perceived discrimination in the experimental group but not in the control group. Further analysis found that perceived social support fully mediated the relationship between the intervention and perceived discrimination. These results provide insights on how the content of intervention (perceived social support) and the form of intervention (wise intervention) can prevent the occurrence of psychological problems in epidemic situations.

【 授权许可】

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