Lelisho Mesfin Esayas, Pandey Digvijay, Alemu Bizuwork Derebew, Pandey Binay Kumar, Tareke Seid Ali
Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Mizan-Tepi University, Tepi, Ethiopia.
Department of Technical Education, IET, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Uttar Pradesh Lucknow, 226021 India.
Trends Psychol. 2023;31(1):123-142. doi: 10.1007/s43076-022-00192-5. Epub 2022 May 16.
The coronavirus pandemic is a global pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulting from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). Despite its numerous benefits for sharing health information, social media has raised several concerns in terms of posing panic among the general population around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of this study was to investigate the negative impact of social media during the COVID-19 outbreak. A web-based poll was used to collect data from social media users. Snowball sampling was used to acquire information from participants for 1 month, from September 1 to September 30, 2020. To examine the effect of social media on fear among participants, the study employed Cohen's d statistic, analysis of variance, Chi-squared test, and linear regression analysis. The study results showed that more than three-fourth (73.26%) used Facebook followed by Telegram by 14.49%. Health news was the most frequently seen, read, or heard with 88.20% of the total. Moreover, 86.73% of respondents experienced panic, while only 13.27% was not. Compared to males, females were more likely to follow health news ( < 0.001). The majority of participants reported being psychologically affected, while only a few were physically affected. Females were substantially more affected mentally and reported significantly more fear than males ( < 0.001). The effect of social media panic is associated with participants' age, and gender at a 5% level of significance. A significant positive link between social media and the diffusion of COVID-19 fear has been shown in this study. According to the result of regression analysis, social media usage has a significant effect on the spread of panic among participants at a 5% level of significance. Study revealed that social media use has a significant impact on the development of panic among people regarding the COVID-19 epidemic, with possibly detrimental psychological and mental health repercussions.This study also discovered a strong correlation between COVID-19 fear and social media. According to the findings, the impact of social media on respondents' terror levels differs depending on their age and gender. The government should take steps to punish those who spread false information or fake news to the public.
冠状病毒大流行是由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV2）引起的2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）全球大流行。尽管社交媒体在共享健康信息方面有诸多益处，但在COVID-19大流行期间，它在引发全球普通民众恐慌方面引发了一些担忧。本研究的主要目的是调查COVID-19疫情期间社交媒体的负面影响。通过一项基于网络的民意调查从社交媒体用户那里收集数据。采用滚雪球抽样法，在2020年9月1日至9月30日的1个月时间里从参与者那里获取信息。为了检验社交媒体对参与者恐惧情绪的影响，该研究采用了科恩d统计量、方差分析、卡方检验和线性回归分析。研究结果显示，超过四分之三（73.26%）的人使用脸书，其次是Telegram，占14.49%。健康新闻是最常被看到、阅读或听到的，占总数的88.20%。此外，86.73%的受访者经历过恐慌，而只有13.27%的人没有。与男性相比，女性更有可能关注健康新闻（<0.001）。大多数参与者报告称受到了心理影响，而只有少数人受到了身体影响。女性在心理上受到的影响更大，报告的恐惧情绪明显多于男性（<0.001）。社交媒体恐慌的影响与参与者的年龄和性别在5%的显著性水平上相关。本研究显示了社交媒体与COVID-19恐惧传播之间存在显著的正相关。根据回归分析结果，社交媒体的使用在5%的显著性水平上对参与者中恐慌情绪的传播有显著影响。研究表明，社交媒体的使用对人们关于COVID-19疫情的恐慌情绪发展有显著影响，可能会对心理和精神健康产生不利影响。本研究还发现COVID-19恐惧与社交媒体之间存在很强的相关性。根据研究结果，社交媒体对受访者恐惧程度的影响因年龄和性别而异。政府应采取措施惩罚那些向公众传播虚假信息或假新闻的人。
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