Social reaction toward the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

By Chung-Ying Lin. Social Health and Behavior, 2020

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With the number of people infected by the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which is rapidly increasing worldwide,[1] public anxieties and worries are elevated in many regions. As the COVID-19 outbreak is ongoing, a wave of fear and worry in the society has arisen. Following this wave of fear and worry, several communities seem to develop a new by-product of discrimination, that is, mutual discrimination within the Asian/Chinese societies. For example, people who reside in Taiwan are afraid of interaction with those living in Hong Kong; people in Hong Kong avoid interaction with China mainlanders; and people from southeastern or southern region of Asia are afraid of contacts with Chinese ethnic people. More recently, people in Hong Kong and Taiwan feel scared when interacting with Koreans and Japanese due to their recent community outbreak.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Health, Modeling and Simulation

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What Have We Learned about the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumer Behavior? (2021, background): “Many researchers consider that the fear of potentially being infected with COVID-19 is another component affecting consumer behavior when shopping in supermarkets [66,67].”
Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a US College Sample (2020, background): “A crisis in mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely approaching (Horesh and Brown 2020; Qiu et al. 2020, Rajkumar 2020; Xiang et al. 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020; Lin 2020) for wide segments of the populations of many countries.”
Social Isolation and Acceptance of the Learning Management System (LMS) in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Expansion of the UTAUT Model (2020, methodology): “As the highly-infectious disease has a relatively high mortality rate, it has caused an increase of fear among the people naturally (Ahorsu et al., 2020), as the worry regarding the COVID-19 was based on contact with individuals who might be infected with the disease (Lin, 2020).”
Investigating mediated effects of fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19 misunderstanding in the association between problematic social media use, psychological distress, and insomnia (2020, background): “From past experience, fear may result in negative effects on health for individuals (Lin, 2020; Ren et al., 2020).”
Adaptation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Its Association with Psychological Distress and Life Satisfaction in Turkey (2020, background): “Moreover, uninfected people reported that they are afraid of contacting with COVID-19-infected individuals (Lin 2020).”
Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications (2020, background): “This idea is further supported by the recent observation of mutual discrimination between East Asian societies in the midst of the pandemic (e.g. individuals in Taiwan avoiding contact with Koreans and Japanese individuals; Lin, 2020).”
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation (2020, background): “The emergence of the COVID-19 (Guan et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2020) and its pandemic nature has exacerbated fears worldwide leading to stigma in some cases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020a, b; Lin 2020).”
Psychometric Validation of the Bangla Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Rasch Analysis (2020, background): “Additionally, death toll overestimation (Roussel et al. 2020) and pandemicrelated issues such as social distancing, quarantine, and isolation have amplified fears leading to stigma in several cases (Lin 2020).”