Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, AMSE, Marseille, France.
Glendon College, York University, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Dec;51:101307. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101307. Epub 2023 Sep 26.
We use a distinctive methodology that leverages a fixed population of Twitter users located in France to gauge the mental health effects of repeated lockdown orders. To do so, we derive from our population a mental health indicator that measures the frequency of words expressing anger, anxiety and sadness. Our indicator did not reveal a statistically significant mental health response during the first lockdown, while the second lockdown triggered a sharp and persistent deterioration in all three emotions. Our estimates also show a more severe deterioration in mental health among women and younger users during the second lockdown. These results suggest that successive stay-at-home orders significantly worsen mental health across a large segment of the population. We also show that individuals who are closer to their social network were partially protected by this network during the first lockdown, but were no longer protected during the second, demonstrating the gravity of successive lockdowns for mental health.
我们采用了一种独特的方法，利用固定的法国推特用户群体来衡量多次封锁令对心理健康的影响。具体来说，我们从我们的用户群体中得出了一个心理健康指标，该指标衡量表达愤怒、焦虑和悲伤的词语的频率。我们的指标显示，在第一次封锁期间，心理健康没有出现统计学上显著的反应，而第二次封锁则导致所有三种情绪明显且持续恶化。我们的估计还显示，在第二次封锁期间，女性和年轻用户的心理健康状况恶化更为严重。这些结果表明，连续的居家令对很大一部分人群的心理健康造成了显著的恶化。我们还表明，在第一次封锁期间，与社交网络更接近的个人在一定程度上受到了社交网络的保护，但在第二次封锁期间，这种保护不再存在，这表明连续封锁对心理健康的影响非常严重。
