An Agenda-Setting Account for Psychological Typhoon Eye Effect on Responses to the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

An Agenda-Setting Account for Psychological Typhoon Eye Effect on Responses to the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan

Published:2023-02-28 Issue:5 Volume:20 Page:4350
ISSN:1660-4601
Container-title:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
language:en
Short-container-title:IJERPH

Author:

Yang Shu-Wen¹²,Xu Ming-Xing¹³,Kuang Yi⁴,Ding Yang¹²,Lin Yu-Xin⁵,Wang Fei⁶,Rao Li-Lin¹²,Zheng Rui¹²,Li Shu²⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

3. School of Transportation, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350108, China

4. Department of Psychology, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

5. Department of Management and Organizations, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

6. School of Journalism and Communication, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

7. Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China

Abstract

During the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan in 2020, we conducted a nationwide survey of 8170 respondents from 31 provinces/municipalities in China via Sojump to examine the relationship between the distance to respondents’ city of residence from Wuhan and their safety concerns and risk perception of the epidemic that occurred in Wuhan City. We found that (1) the farther (psychologically or physically) people were from Wuhan, the more concerned they were with the safety of the epidemic risk in Wuhan, which we dubbed the psychological typhoon eye (PTE) effect on responses to the outbreak of COVID-19; (2) agenda setting can provide a principled account for such effect: the risk information proportion mediated the PTE effect. The theoretical and managerial implications for the PTE effect and public opinion disposal were discussed, and agenda setting was identified to be responsible for the preventable overestimated risk perception.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Major Projects of National Social Science Foundation of China

Key Projects of National Social Science Foundation of China

Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

MOE (Ministry of Education of China) Youth Foundation Project of Humanities and Social Sciences

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/4350/pdf

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