Abstract
This paper reports the results of a recent survey of Chinese WeChat networkers (n = 2015, August 2020) about China’s mental health conditions under COVID-19. The purpose of the survey was to measure symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization by using a standard 18-item battery and assess how the results were related to an individual’s socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and social capital under an ongoing pandemic. The survey reveals that the pandemic has had a significant impact, as the respondents had more serious mental symptoms when their residential communities exhibited a greater exposure to the spread of the virus. The socioeconomic status of the respondents was negatively associated with the mental symptoms. It modified the impact of COVID-19, and its effect was substantially mediated by measures of lifestyle and social capital.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 8843 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | International journal of environmental research and public health |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 23 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding: This research was funded by the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Foundation of China with the grant number 19YJC840047 and by the Social Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province with the grant number 2018G15.
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- Lifestyle
- Mental health
- Social capital
- Socioeconomic status
