COVID-19-Related News Consumption Linked with Stress and Worry, but Not Sleep Quality, Early in the Pandemic
COVID-19-Related News Consumption Linked with Stress and Worry, but Not Sleep Quality, Early in the Pandemic
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DOI：
10.1080/13548506.2022.2141281
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发表时间：
2022-11-03
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Scullin, Michael K.
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作者：
Ladis, Ilana;Gao, Chenlu;Scullin, Michael K.
从2020年初开始，新型冠状病毒成为频繁和持续的新闻报道的主题。基于之前关于在大规模危机期间消费新闻的压力诱导效应的文献，我们使用网络分析来调查2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）新闻消费，COVID-19相关的心理压力，担心自己和亲人感染COVID-19以及睡眠质量之间的关系。数据于2020年3月从美国亚马逊土耳其机器人招募的586名成年人（45. 2%为女性; 72. 9%为白色）中收集。参与者完成了评估与COVID-19相关的态度和行为的在线调查，以及评估睡眠质量七个领域的问卷。使用部分正则化相关矩阵构建网络。正如假设的那样，COVID-19新闻消费与COVID-19相关的心理压力以及对亲人感染COVID-19的担忧呈正相关。然而，COVID-19新闻消费与睡眠质量指数之间的关联非常少，性别也没有调节任何观察到的关系。这项研究重复并扩展了先前的研究结果，即COVID-19新闻消费与大流行相关的心理压力有关，但即使在这种情况下，由于大流行允许早上工作/上学时间表的灵活性，睡眠质量也可以幸免。
Beginning in early 2020, the novel coronavirus was the subject of frequent and sustained news coverage. Building on prior literature on the stress-inducing effects of consuming news during a large-scale crisis, we used network analysis to investigate the association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) news consumption, COVID-19-related psychological stress, worries about oneself and one's loved ones getting COVID-19, and sleep quality. Data were collected in March 2020 from 586 adults (45.2% female; 72.9% White) recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk in the U.S. Participants completed online surveys assessing attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19 and a questionnaire assessing seven domains of sleep quality. Networks were constructed using partial regularized correlation matrices. As hypothesized, COVID-19 news consumption was positively associated with COVID-19-related psychological stress and concerns about one's loved ones getting COVID-19. However, there were very few associations between COVID-19 news consumption and sleep quality indices, and gender did not moderate any of the observed relationships. This study replicates and extends previous findings that COVID-19-news consumption is linked with psychological stress related to the pandemic, but even under such conditions, sleep quality can be spared due to the pandemic allowing for flexibility in morning work/school schedules.