Media Exposure of Covid-19 and Mental Health
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.132How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- media exposure; Covid-19; coronavirus; mental health
- Abstract
COVID-19’s aggressive appearance has caught the whole world by surprise. With the development of science and technology, people can be easily exposed to the global pandemic situation through media exposure. However, the issue that whether excessive media exposure of Covid-19 or similar negative events will influence people’s mental health and aggravate the severity of mental illness has not received sufficient researcher attention. In this study, we collected 8 articles related to the media exposure of Covid-19 and mental health by searching for the keywords such as “media exposure,” “Covid-19/coronavirus,” “mental illness”, of which 6 studies conducted cross-sectional design with surveys and questionnaires, and 2 studies were meta-analysis. This review found that during the pandemic of Covid-19 in 2019, with the exposure of negative content, people’s depression and anxiety increased, and the exposure time of negative social media information was also related to the degree of depression and anxiety. The conclusions drawn from the review paper can be used to identify potential factors that may change the psychological state of the public in the context of an epidemic and control the use of social media or filter the news. In addition, it can also provide information to psychotherapists and journalists on how to stabilize people’s mental health and selectively broadcast the news in the event of a serious disaster.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yunqian Zhang AU - Yichen Lyu AU - Ruize Sun PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Media Exposure of Covid-19 and Mental Health BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 769 EP - 773 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.132 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.132 ID - Zhang2021 ER -