互联网的使用增加了人们对感染Covid-19的恐惧
1School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. 101013703@seu.edu.cn.
Scientific reports
|February 10, 2025
概括
在COVID-19大流行期间增加的互联网使用与更高的感染恐惧相关. 这种影响对女性,中等收入,老年人和受教育程度较低的人来说更为显著.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 信息科学 信息科学 信息科学
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,互联网的采用加速了信息和社会联系的发展.
- 广泛且可能误导性的在线信息对公众恐惧和焦虑的影响仍未得到充分研究.
- 了解互联网使用与COVID-19感染恐惧之间的关系对于公共卫生沟通至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查互联网使用频率与对COVID-19感染的恐惧之间的关联.
- 确定调节这种关系的人口和个人因素.
- 探索互联网使用对接种疫苗的可能性和对政府措施的态度的影响.
主要方法:
- 利用了2021年中国总社会调查 (CGSS) 的数据,这是一个全国性的,全面的,持续的调查项目.
- 采用了Ordered-Probit模型来分析互联网使用频率和对COVID-19感染的恐惧之间的关系.
- 在中国大陆进行了横截面调查.
主要成果:
- 互联网使用频率更高显著增加了对COVID-19感染的恐惧.
- 从从不使用互联网到经常使用互联网的过渡,将感觉不太害怕的概率降低2%.
- 这种效应在女性,中等收入群体,老年人,受教育程度较低的人,患有慢性疾病的人以及不太可能感知感染风险的人群中更为明显.
结论:
- 互联网使用频率是COVID-19感染恐惧的重要预测因素.
- 特定的人口和个体特征放大了这种效应,突出了弱势群体.
- 越来越多的互联网参与与更高的疫苗接种可能性和对公共卫生政策的看法改变有关.
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