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

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Lei Zhang¹  Yanjie Bian²  Yang Xiao³ 

[1] Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA;Institute for Empirical Social Science Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China;School of Philosophy and Government, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China;

关键词: mental health;    socioeconomic status;    lifestyle;    social capital;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph17238843

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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