Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2299983

Anthony D Mancini, Sarah Sowards, Andrea Blumberg, Robert Lynch, Giovanni Fardella, Nicole C Maewsky, Gabriele Prati

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Abstract

Background: Prolonged media exposure after collective crises is widely shown to have adverse effects on people's mental health. Do these effects show variation across different countries? In the present study, we compared the link between media exposure related to COVID-19 and mental health-related outcomes in the United States and Italy, two countries with high levels of early COVID-19 prevalence.

Method: Participants matched on age and gender in the United States (n = 415) and Italy (n = 442) completed assessments of media exposure, stress, anxiety, COVID-19 worry, and other variables shortly after the first wave of infections in 2020.

Results: COVID-19 related media exposure predicted higher levels of stress, anxiety, and COVID-19 worry, net of the effects of neuroticism, political identification, and demographics. Moreover, COVID-19 related media exposure interacted with country to predict more stress and COVID-19 worry in the United States than in Italy.

Conclusions: Findings are among the first to document cross-national differences in the association of media exposure with mental health outcomes.

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在美国，与意大利相比，与 COVID-19 相关的媒体接触会导致更严重的心理健康后果。

背景：人们普遍认为，集体危机后长时间接触媒体会对人们的心理健康产生不利影响。这些影响在不同国家是否存在差异？在本研究中，我们比较了美国和意大利这两个 COVID-19 早期流行率较高的国家中，与 COVID-19 相关的媒体接触与心理健康相关结果之间的联系：美国（n = 415）和意大利（n = 442）年龄和性别匹配的参与者在 2020 年第一波感染后不久完成了对媒体接触、压力、焦虑、COVID-19 担忧和其他变量的评估：除去神经质、政治认同和人口统计学的影响，与 COVID-19 相关的媒体接触可预测更高水平的压力、焦虑和 COVID-19 担忧。此外，COVID-19 相关媒体接触与国家之间存在交互作用，在美国比在意大利能预测更多的压力和 COVID-19 担忧：这些研究结果首次记录了媒体接触与心理健康结果之间的跨国差异。

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.