Coronavirus: The Not-So-Trivial Loss of Well-Being

doi:10.1029/2020EF001904

	Coronavirus: The Not-So-Trivial Loss of Well-Being
	Duan, Hongbo 4; Huang, Zhilin 3; Jiang, Jie 2; Ming, Xi 4; Zhang, Dingxuan 4; Wang, Shouyang 1
刊名	EARTHS FUTURE
	2021-09-01
卷号	9 期号:9 页码:17
关键词	Novel Coronavirus social media posts self-reported happiness China
DOI	10.1029/2020EF001904
英文摘要	The COVID-19 outbreak has been one of the world's most severe challenges since World War II, which not only reflected in the observable economic depression, but also in emotional damage that is scarcely underscored. This paper estimates the effect of the epidemic on happiness of Chinese residents by capturing the emotions conveyed through massive social media, combined with city-level epidemic data. We confirm the significant negative impact of the outbreak on life satisfaction, with an extra 1% of cumulative death cases associated with a 0.54% decrease in expressed happiness. Meanwhile, we find that well-being drops the most in regions with high-level risk of COVID-19, and happiness in regions with higher or lower income levels are more vulnerable to the effects of the epidemic, in comparison to the intermediate-level income regions. Female sentiment exhibits more sensitivity to the epidemic situation than does male sentiment. Furthermore, the timing of major public events also plays a sizable role in determining self-reported happiness, and our results suggest that pandemic alerts announced by the World Health Organization significantly increased the loss of well-being, while announcements of city-unlocking had the opposite impact. The interaction between the outbreak and real-time expressed happiness provides an important opportunity for reflection on the future governance policies of epidemic containment.
资助项目	National Natural Foundation of China[71874177] ; National Natural Foundation of China[72022019] ; National Natural Foundation of China[71988101] ; National Natural Foundation of China[71950008] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association[2021164] ; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
出版者	AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
WOS记录号	WOS:000702283700013
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/59335]
专题	中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院
通讯作者	Huang, Zhilin; Jiang, Jie
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Beijing Youth Polit Coll, Modern Management Sch, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Shantou Univ, Sch Business, Shantou, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Duan, Hongbo,Huang, Zhilin,Jiang, Jie,et al. Coronavirus: The Not-So-Trivial Loss of Well-Being[J]. EARTHS FUTURE,2021,9(9):17.
APA	Duan, Hongbo,Huang, Zhilin,Jiang, Jie,Ming, Xi,Zhang, Dingxuan,&Wang, Shouyang.(2021).Coronavirus: The Not-So-Trivial Loss of Well-Being.EARTHS FUTURE,9(9),17.
MLA	Duan, Hongbo,et al."Coronavirus: The Not-So-Trivial Loss of Well-Being".EARTHS FUTURE 9.9(2021):17.