Yang Fan, Sun Jian, Li Jiaying, Lyu Shoujun
School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Room 335, Xinjian building, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai, China.
China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Feb 20:1-9. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-02874-w.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provides hotbed for hatred and violence, which could be especially true among college students, the most active users of internet and social media. Based on a national sample of Chinese college students ( = 1,673), the present study aims to explore the clustered nature of stress coping strategies, as well as its associations with the participants' stigmatizing attitude and cyberbullying behaviors towards people in Hubei Province, the place where the first COVID-19 case was reported and recognized as China's epicenter of the pandemic. Four latent subgroups were first identified among the participants based on type and comparative adoption rate of their coping strategies, namely the emotional coping group, the inactive coping group, the support-seeking and positive coping group, and the independent and positive coping group. The significant associations between coping strategy patterns and stigmatizing attitude and cyberbullying behaviors were reported, respectively. The two were most likely to happen among the participants using emotional coping while the least likely among the independent and positive coping group. This study provides empirical supports for combating the secondary disasters of the pandemic, namely stigma and cyberbullying, by identifying the role of emotional and positive coping strategies.
持续的新冠疫情为仇恨和暴力提供了滋生的温床，这在大学生中可能尤为如此，他们是互联网和社交媒体最活跃的用户。基于一项对1673名中国大学生的全国性抽样调查，本研究旨在探讨压力应对策略的聚类性质，以及其与参与者对湖北省民众的污名化态度和网络欺凌行为之间的关联。湖北省是首例新冠病例报告地，被视为中国疫情的震中。首先，根据参与者应对策略的类型和相对采用率，在他们当中识别出四个潜在亚组，即情绪应对组、消极应对组、寻求支持与积极应对组，以及独立与积极应对组。研究分别报告了应对策略模式与污名化态度和网络欺凌行为之间的显著关联。这两种情况在采用情绪应对的参与者中最有可能发生，而在独立与积极应对组中最不可能发生。本研究通过确定情绪和积极应对策略的作用，为抗击疫情的次生灾害，即污名化和网络欺凌，提供了实证支持。
