Mental health of chinese online networkers under COVID-19: A sociological analysis of survey data

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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.

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Xiao, Y., Bian, Y., & Zhang, L. (2020). Mental health of chinese online networkers under COVID-19: A sociological analysis of survey data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(23), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238843

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