Pandemic and Panic: Negative Emotion of Chinese College Students Caused by News During the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.208How to use a DOI?

Keywords

News media, mental health, psychological distress, COVID-19 Pandemic, Chinese college students

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic which was outbreak in 2020 forced people to quarantine at home and only rely on news to get information. As a result, news strongly influenced people’s opinions and mental health. College students, the future of China, might be influenced by negative news. This work uses online survey and interview to discuss whether the duration of Chinese college students to pandemic news would increase and whether the pandemic news would be positively correlated with their depression. The results give positive solution to both two hypothesis. The findings suggest that during public crisis, the government should closely monitor students mental health and adjust correlated policy in time.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiajing Sun
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Pandemic and Panic: Negative Emotion of Chinese College Students Caused by News During the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 512
EP  - 516
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.208
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.208
ID  - Sun2021
ER  -