Ye Yingying, Long Tingting, Liu Cuizhen, Xu Dan
Department of Psychology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 21;11:588701. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588701. eCollection 2020.
During the outbreak of COVID-19, information on the epidemic inundated people's lives and led to negative emotions (e.g., tension, anxiety, and fear) in many people. This study aims to explore the effect of various emotions on prosocial tendencies during the COVID-19 outbreak and the moderating effect of the severity of the epidemic. We explore these effects by conducting a text analysis of the content of posts by 387,730 Weibo users. The results show that the severity of the epidemic promotes prosocial tendencies; anger motivates prosocial tendencies significantly; and the severity of the epidemic moderates the effects of three emotions-anger, sadness, and surprise-on prosocial tendencies. These findings provide a reference for exploring the positive significance of major disasters.
在新冠疫情爆发期间，疫情信息充斥着人们的生活，并在许多人身上引发了负面情绪（如紧张、焦虑和恐惧）。本研究旨在探讨新冠疫情爆发期间各种情绪对亲社会倾向的影响以及疫情严重程度的调节作用。我们通过对387,730名微博用户发布内容进行文本分析来探究这些影响。结果表明，疫情严重程度促进亲社会倾向；愤怒显著激发亲社会倾向；且疫情严重程度调节愤怒、悲伤和惊讶这三种情绪对亲社会倾向的影响。这些发现为探究重大灾难的积极意义提供了参考。
