Dynamic interplay among emotional support, social interaction, COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety symptoms in emerging adults during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2025.2512922

Yimei Zhang, Zhihao Ma

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Abstract

Background: Anxiety was prevalent among emerging adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Conservation of Resources Theory, our goal was to investigate the relations among emotional support, social interaction, COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety symptoms in emerging adults during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Using the COVID-Dynamic dataset, we analyzed data from the first three waves (April 4-18, 2020), resulting in a total of 569 valid participants aged 18-29, with 46.2% identifying as female and a mean age of 23.88 years. The Gaussian Graphical Model was applied to estimate the network models.

Results: Contemporaneous network indicated that anxiety symptoms were related to emotional support, social interaction and COVID-19 news exposure. Temporal network revealed bidirectional relations between emotional support and anxiety, and between COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety. Several anxiety symptoms predicted social interaction one week later. Emotional support was a significant predictor of anxiety symptoms. "I feel nervous" had the highest strength value in the contemporaneous network. "I feel indecisive" had the highest in-strength centrality in the temporal network.

Conclusions: Findings partially support the COR theory and emphasize the need to reevaluate the role of emotional support in the theory.

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在COVID-19大流行早期，新兴成人的情感支持、社会互动、COVID-19新闻曝光和焦虑症状之间的动态相互作用

背景：在COVID-19大流行期间，焦虑在新兴成年人中普遍存在。根据资源守恒理论，我们的目的是研究新冠肺炎大流行早期新兴成人的情绪支持、社会互动、新冠肺炎新闻曝光与焦虑症状之间的关系。方法：使用COVID-Dynamic数据集分析前三波（2020年4月4日至18日）的数据，共获得569名有效参与者，年龄在18-29岁之间，其中46.2%为女性，平均年龄23.88岁。采用高斯图形模型对网络模型进行估计。结果：同时期网络显示，焦虑症状与情绪支持、社交互动和COVID-19新闻接触有关。时间网络显示情绪支持与焦虑、新冠肺炎新闻曝光与焦虑之间存在双向关系。一些焦虑症状预示着一周后的社交活动。情感支持是焦虑症状的重要预测因子。在同时期的网络中，“我感到紧张”的强度值最高。“我感觉优柔寡断”在时间网络中的强度中心性最高。结论：研究结果部分支持了心理支持理论，并强调需要重新评估情绪支持在心理支持理论中的作用。

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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.