Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》
Abstract： Wuhan lockdown has affected individual psychological status while effectively curbing the epidemic. It is difficult for traditional questionnaire method to acquire individual psychological assessments in large scale timely, which makes it hard to propose time-effective psychological services. In this study, we extracted the linguistic features of Weibo posts from January 20, 2020 to February 16, 2020 among 41 105 active users, and identified the changes of Wuhan citizens’ psychological status nonintrusively. The results indicated that Wuhan citizens have been in a high state of negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, hostility, and disappointment in short term. Meanwhile, the lockdown had induced more fear, psychological pain, and stress experience to some extent. In addition, the lockdown reduced the usage of leisure words and increased the frequency of working words in Wuhan residents’ language expressions. The results suggest that we should take targeted services according to the different negative emotions raised, and arrange long-term service for negative effects of stress, and incorporate online public psychological detection and service into national emergency management system.
Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology submitted time 2020-02-05
Abstract： [Objective] To explore the influence of public health emergencies on the psychological state of the public, and understand its changing characteristics and rules. [Methods] We acquire active Weibo users from 2020/1/13 to 2020/2/26 at first, and extract features from these users’ data, including word frequency, negative (anxiety, depression and force), positive (life satisfaction and oxford happiness) and social attitudes (social risk judgment and anger) index. We then compare the differences of psychological characteristics between 2020/1/13-2020/1/19 and 2020/1/20-2020/1/26. [Results] The result indicates that the frequency of negative emotional words (t=-18.533, p < 0.05) and anxious words were increased (t=-17.433, p < 0.05), family words (t=7.907, p < 0.05) and friend words decreased (t=6.897, p < 0.05) after 20-th. Meanwhile, anxiety (t=-35.962, p < 0.05), depression (t=-10.717, p < 0.05) and obsessiveness (t=-24.755, p < 0.05) were increased. Oxford happiness (t=3.120, p < 0.05) and life satisfaction (t=5.500, p < 0.05) were decreased. The levels of social risk judgment (t=-8.832, p < 0.05) and anger (t=-11.415, p < 0.05) were increased. [Limitations] The weekly measurement of the data is considered as a relatively large scale, which has a certain influence on reflecting the trend of social mentality timely. [Conclusions] After the official confirmation and attention to the incident, the overall state of mind of the society showed an increase in negative emotions such as anxiety and anger, as well as a decrease in well-being and an increase in sensitivity to social risks.
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