CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 28;20(5):4350. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054350.
During the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan in 2020, we conducted a nationwide survey of 8170 respondents from 31 provinces/municipalities in China via Sojump to examine the relationship between the distance to respondents' city of residence from Wuhan and their safety concerns and risk perception of the epidemic that occurred in Wuhan City. We found that (1) the farther (psychologically or physically) people were from Wuhan, the more concerned they were with the safety of the epidemic risk in Wuhan, which we dubbed the psychological typhoon eye (PTE) effect on responses to the outbreak of COVID-19; (2) agenda setting can provide a principled account for such effect: the risk information proportion mediated the PTE effect. The theoretical and managerial implications for the PTE effect and public opinion disposal were discussed, and agenda setting was identified to be responsible for the preventable overestimated risk perception.
在 2020 年武汉 COVID-19 爆发期间，我们通过 Sojump 对中国 31 个省/直辖市的 8170 名受访者进行了全国性调查，以研究受访者所在城市与武汉的距离与其对武汉市发生的疫情的安全担忧和风险感知之间的关系。我们发现：（1）人们与武汉的心理距离或物理距离越远，他们对武汉疫情风险的安全关注就越多，我们将其称为对 COVID-19 疫情爆发的心理台风眼（PTE）效应；（2）议程设置可以为这种效应提供一个原则性的解释：风险信息比例中介了 PTE 效应。讨论了 PTE 效应和舆论处理的理论和管理意义，并确定议程设置对可预防的高估风险感知负责。
