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pmid33112757      J+Med+Internet+Res 2020 ; 22 (11): e21933
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  • Public Emotions and Rumors Spread During the COVID-19 Epidemic in China: Web-Based Correlation Study #MMPMID33112757
  • Dong W; Tao J; Xia X; Ye L; Xu H; Jiang P; Liu Y
  • J Med Internet Res 2020[Nov]; 22 (11): e21933 PMID33112757show ga
  • BACKGROUND: Various online rumors have led to inappropriate behaviors among the public in response to the COVID-19 epidemic in China. These rumors adversely affect people's physical and mental health. Therefore, a better understanding of the relationship between public emotions and rumors during the epidemic may help generate useful strategies for guiding public emotions and dispelling rumors. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore whether public emotions are related to the dissemination of online rumors in the context of COVID-19. METHODS: We used the web-crawling tool Scrapy to gather data published by People's Daily on Sina Weibo, a popular social media platform in China, after January 8, 2020. Netizens' comments under each Weibo post were collected. Nearly 1 million comments thus collected were divided into 5 categories: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and neutral, based on the underlying emotional information identified and extracted from the comments by using a manual identification process. Data on rumors spread online were collected through Tencent's Jiaozhen platform. Time-lagged cross-correlation analyses were performed to examine the relationship between public emotions and rumors. RESULTS: Our results indicated that the angrier the public felt, the more rumors there would likely be (r=0.48, P<.001). Similar results were observed for the relationship between fear and rumors (r=0.51, P<.001) and between sadness and rumors (r=0.47, P<.001). Furthermore, we found a positive correlation between happiness and rumors, with happiness lagging the emergence of rumors by 1 day (r=0.56, P<.001). In addition, our data showed a significant positive correlation between fear and fearful rumors (r=0.34, P=.02). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings confirm that public emotions are related to the rumors spread online in the context of COVID-19 in China. Moreover, these findings provide several suggestions, such as the use of web-based monitoring methods, for relevant authorities and policy makers to guide public emotions and behavior during this public health emergency.
  • |COVID-19/*epidemiology/*psychology[MESH]
  • |China/epidemiology[MESH]
  • |Correlation of Data[MESH]
  • |Emotions/*physiology[MESH]
  • |Female[MESH]
  • |Humans[MESH]
  • |Internet[MESH]
  • |Male[MESH]
  • |Pandemics[MESH]


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