Fear in the Chinese Population: Influential Patterns in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Major global public health emergencies challenge public mental health. Negative emotions, and especially fear, may endanger social stability. To better cope with epidemics and pandemics, early emotional guidance should be provided based on an understanding of the status of public emotions in the given circumstances. From January 27 to February 11, 2020 (during which the cases of COVID-19 were increasing), a national online survey of the Chinese public was conducted. A total of 132,482 respondents completed a bespoke questionnaire, the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ). Results showed that at the early stage of the COVID-19 epidemic, 53.0% of the Chinese population reported varying degrees of fear, mostly mild. As seen from regression analys

SUBMITTER: Chen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204111 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature