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How People Emotionally Respond to the News on COVID-19: An Online Survey.
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- Pandemic panic? Results of a 14-month longitudinal study on fear of COVID-19.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Review
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- The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: The role of personality traits and emotion regulation strategies.PloS one · 2022Article
- A neglected reality of mass media during COVID-19: Effect of pandemic news on individual's positive and negative emotion and psychological resilience.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- Quantifying Online News Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Text Mining Study and Resource.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- The impact of the pandemic declaration on public awareness and behavior: Focusing on COVID-19 google searches.Technological forecasting and social change · 2021Article
- The Influence of Emotional Framing and Graph Complexity on Biases in Graphical Memory for COVID-19 Data in a Lifespan Sample.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
- Psychological distress among older adults during COVID-19 pandemic: Prevalence and associated factors.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
introductionDuring the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, news media has played an important role in informing people to satisfy their curiosity about this stressful condition. Regular exposure to such stressful news may elicit different emotions in people and engage them in using strategies to control their emotions. In the present study, we aimed at exploring the most common negative emotion(s) experienced by individuals, as well as the most frequent Emotion Regulation (ER) strategies used facing the COVID-19-related news. We also examined whether the variable of personal relevance can moderate these emotional responses.
methods617 individuals living in Tehran who regularly read the news about the COVID-19 from the early stages of spread completed an online survey. After excluding the participants with high scores from the Beck Depression Inventory (>18), data obtained from 443 participants were analyzed in terms of the experienced negative emotions and ER strategies.
resultsAnxiety (55.8%) was the most common negative emotion reported by participants facing COVID-19-related news and problem-solving was the most frequent strategy used to control negative emotions. Both groups with high and low personal relevance indicated a similar pattern in experiencing high and low arousal emotions, as well as using ER strategies, and no significant differences were found (X
conclusionWe found that during the COVID-19 outbreak, news media may have important role in triggering anxiety in people who regularly read the relevant news, and problem-solving was the most frequent strategy among them. Being directly involved with COVID-19 in personal life did not make any differences in the way that individuals emotionally respond to the news. While using an integrative approach in regulating emotion was found in more resilient individuals.
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