Exploring the Mechanisms of Influence on COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in China's Social Media Users | |
Liu, Zeyu1,2; Geng, Huijun3; Chen, Hao4; Zhu, Meng5; Zhu, Tingshao1,2 | |
第一作者 | Liu, Zeyu |
通讯作者邮箱 | zhumeng1989@hbue.edu.cn ; tszhu@psych.ac.cn |
心理所单位排序 | 1 |
摘要 | The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed a powerful threat to human life. The preventive behaviors of individuals (e.g., home quarantine, disinfection, and wearing masks) play a key role in preserving and controlling the disease. In this case, as a motivational psychological system oriented toward avoiding infection, the behavioral immune system (BIS) may be activated and link to preventive behaviors. This study investigated the mechanisms through which emotional and cognitive processes resulted by BIS have promoted preventive behaviors in relation to COVID-19. We collected data on 22,005 active Sina Weibo users from 31 December 2019 to 8 February 2020 to measure their emotions (including disgust, happiness, and fear), cultural values (individualism and collectivism), moral concern (including purity vice, fairness vice, and authority virtue), and behavioral intentions (including isolation intention, protection intention, and aid intention) using Text Mind software and related dictionaries. Multiple regression and mediation analyses were performed to explore the relationships among variables. The results showed seven complete mediation paths (such as disgust-purity vice-protection intention). Each of these paths describes the effects of cognitive processes caused by BIS on preventive behaviors. We inferred that there may be path mechanisms such as disgust-cognitive processes-preventive behaviors. Using these results, policy makers can take appropriate measures to intervene in preventive behaviors (e.g., by posting disgusting images on social media to evoke disgust). The results can be used to explain differences in preventive behaviors among populations even in the face of similar thread levels. Furthermore, our research provides empirical evidence for the hypothesis of pathogen prevalence. |
关键词 | COVID-19 preventive behaviors influence mechanisms behavioral immune system social media |
2020-12-01 | |
DOI | 10.3390/ijerph17238766 |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH |
卷号 | 17期号:23页码:14 |
期刊论文类型 | 实证研究 |
收录类别 | SCI |
资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[31700984] ; National Social Science Fund of China[17AZD041] |
出版者 | MDPI |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000597995500001 |
WOS分区 | Q1 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/38301 |
专题 | 社会与工程心理学研究室 |
通讯作者 | Zhu, Meng; Zhu, Tingshao |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.China Univ Polit Sci & Law, Sch Law, Beijing 102249, Peoples R China 4.Nankai Univ, Sch Zhou Enlai Sch Govt, Dept Social Psychol, Tianjin 300350, Peoples R China 5.Hubei Univ Econ, Inst Adv Studies Finance & Econ, Wuhan 430205, Peoples R China |
第一作者单位 | 中国科学院心理研究所 |
通讯作者单位 | 中国科学院心理研究所 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Liu, Zeyu,Geng, Huijun,Chen, Hao,et al. Exploring the Mechanisms of Influence on COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in China's Social Media Users[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2020,17(23):14. |
APA | Liu, Zeyu,Geng, Huijun,Chen, Hao,Zhu, Meng,&Zhu, Tingshao.(2020).Exploring the Mechanisms of Influence on COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in China's Social Media Users.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,17(23),14. |
MLA | Liu, Zeyu,et al."Exploring the Mechanisms of Influence on COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in China's Social Media Users".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 17.23(2020):14. |
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