The influence of pessimism on adverse network behavior during COVID-19: the mediating effect of negative affect and risk perception.

ABSTRACT: There had been an information epidemic during the COVID-19, which led to a lot of adverse network behavior among Internet users. From the perspective of cognition and emotion, this study focused on exploring the influence mechanism of pessimism on undergraduates' adverse network behavior, and introduced the mediating variable of negative affect and risk perception. In this study, a cross-sectional questionnaire was used to evaluate pessimism, negative affect, risk perception and adverse network behavior of undergraduates to explore the characteristics of network behaviors of undergraduates during the COVID-19. 600 undergraduates from three universities in a city in China were selected as participants, among whom 312 students are female and 288 students are male. The results are as follows:

SUBMITTER: Wu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9446659 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature