Exploring the Psychological Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement in China: A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis on Weibo Data Pool.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, strict home confinement has been implemented in most parts of Chinese regions. Millions of people were not allowed to leave their homes except for special reasons. Home confinement plays an essential role in curbing pandemic and promoting preventive behaviors, but it may affect individuals' mental health as well.

Objects

The objective of this study was to explore the psychological impacts of home confinement.

Materials and methods

We collected more than 150,360 Weibo messages from 5,370 Chinese active users, and then extracted psycho-linguistic features from these messages. Psycho-linguistic analysis was carried out using the 2 (confinement vs. non-confinement) × 2 (before vs. after confinement) repeated measure analysis

SUBMITTER: Wu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209261 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature