Psychological and Behavioral Impact of Wuhan Lockdown and Suggestions

Authors

ZHAO Nan, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
WANG Yilin, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
LI Sijia, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
LIU Xiaoqian, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
WU Peijing, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
ZHU Tingshao, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Keywords

COVID-19; Wuhan; social media; linguistic features; psychological status

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Wuhan lockdown has affected individual psychological status while effectively curbing the epidemic. It is difficult for traditional questionnaire method to acquire individual psychological assessments in large scale timely, which makes it hard to propose time-effective psychological services. In this study, we extracted the linguistic features of Weibo posts from January 20, 2020 to February 16, 2020 among 41 105 active users, and identified the changes of Wuhan citizens' psychological status nonintrusively. The results indicated that Wuhan citizens have been in a high state of negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, hostility, and disappointment in short term. Meanwhile, the lockdown had induced more fear, psychological pain, and stress experience to some extent. In addition, the lockdown reduced the usage of leisure words and increased the frequency of working words in Wuhan residents' language expressions. The results suggest that we should take targeted services according to the different negative emotions raised, and arrange long-term service for negative effects of stress, and incorporate online public psychological detection and service into national emergency management system.

First page

264

Last Page

272

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

Nan, ZHAO; Yilin, WANG; Sijia, LI; Xiaoqian, LIU; Peijing, WU; and Tingshao, ZHU (2020) "Psychological and Behavioral Impact of Wuhan Lockdown and Suggestions," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 35 : Iss. 3 , Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20200217001
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss3/5