Ye Baojuan, Zeng Yadi, Im Hohjin, Liu Mingfan, Wang Xinqiang, Yang Qiang
Center of Mental Health Education and Research, School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 15;12:589615. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.589615. eCollection 2021.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, fear has run rampant across the globe. To curb the spread of the virus, several governments have taken measures to drastically transition businesses, work, and schooling to virtual settings. While such transitions are warranted and well-intended, these measures may come with unforeseen consequences. Namely, one's fear of COVID-19 may more readily manifest as aggressive behaviors in an otherwise incognito virtual social ecology. In the current research, a moderated mediation model examined the mechanisms underlying the relation between fear of COVID-19 and overt and relational aggressive online behavior among Chinese college students. Utilizing a large sample of Chinese college students ( = 2,799), results indicated that moral disengagement mediated the effect of fear of COVID-19 on college students' overt and relational online aggressive behavior. A positive family cohesion buffered the effect of moral disengagement on relational aggressive behavior, but only for females. The findings, theoretical contributions, and practical implications of the present paper are also discussed.
在新冠疫情期间，恐惧在全球蔓延。为遏制病毒传播，一些政府已采取措施，促使企业、工作和学校教育大幅转向虚拟模式。虽然这些转变是必要且善意的，但这些措施可能会带来意想不到的后果。具体而言，在原本隐匿的虚拟社会生态中，人们对新冠病毒的恐惧可能更容易表现为攻击性行为。在当前的研究中，一个有调节的中介模型检验了中国大学生对新冠病毒的恐惧与公开及关系型网络攻击行为之间关系的潜在机制。通过对大量中国大学生样本（=2799）的研究，结果表明道德推脱在对新冠病毒的恐惧对大学生公开及关系型网络攻击行为的影响中起中介作用。积极的家庭凝聚力缓冲了道德推脱对关系型攻击行为的影响，但仅对女性有效。本文还讨论了研究结果、理论贡献和实际意义。
