The Differences of People's Social Emotions During the Initial Stage Of COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Since December 2019, the outbreak of novel coronavirus has had a lasting and significant impact on people all over the world. Especially in the early stages of the outbreak, the epidemic prevention policies and public sentiment of countries around the world also varied greatly. Because the outbreak of the new champions league has sudden, universality, urgency, explosive and uncertainty, and other properties, and there was no specific methods such as drugs or vaccines can undertake the treatment and prevention, has drawn great attention of the world health organization and the countries, such as China and its cities based on the seriousness of the epidemic situation, major public health emergencies are up level response mechanism. In general, governments of all countries have taken various measures to combat the epidemic to ensure people's physical and mental health and avoid excessive panic, anxiety and other negative emotions. However, with the rapid development of the epidemic, more and more people are gradually aware of the seriousness of the disease. Due to this sudden public health event, people still appear various bad social emotions to some extent, such as fear of travel, fear of being infected by the virus, fear and excessive attention to the epidemic situation. Bad social emotions serious, even become irritable, apathy, and even have aggressive behavior or revenge thoughts.