Associations between social media exposure and COVID-19 preventive behaviors in post-zero-COVID China: a moderated mediation model of risk perception, fear, and mindfulness
Ting Han, Miao Liu · 2026
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Ting Han and Miao Liu survey Chinese adults in the weeks after the zero COVID policy ended, asking how social media shaped protective behavior. Published in 2026, the online survey reached 1,167 adults during the infection surge of late December 2022. The model links media exposure to behavior through two inner states, risk perception and fear, with mindfulness as a possible buffer.
More media exposure went with higher risk perception and more fear, and both states went with more preventive action. Mindfulness changed the fear path: the link from fear to behavior grew stronger at higher mindfulness in the fitted model. The authors read social media as the era's main health channel, for better and worse, and mindfulness as a self regulation resource worth study.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ting Han, Miao Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |