Social Sharing of Emotion During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Authors
- Kim, Doha; Park, Chaewon; Kim, Eunji; Han, Jinyoung; Song, Hayeon
- Issue Date
- Jun-2022
- Publisher
- MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
- Keywords
- COVID19; emotion; social sharing; stage model; Twitter
- Citation
- CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING, v.25, no.6, pp 369 - 376
- Pages
- 8
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
- Volume
- 25
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 369
- End Page
- 376
- URI
- https://scholarx.skku.edu/handle/2021.sw.skku/97835
- DOI
- 10.1089/cyber.2021.0270
- ISSN
- 2152-2715
2152-2723
- Abstract
- The long-term uncertainty and persistence of isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic created prolonged emotional distress individually and collectively. As the pandemic progressed, the dynamic ride of emotional experience was expressed live and shared online, particularly on social media. In this study, we collected posted messages on Twitter for a longitudinal investigation to determine how emotional experiences changed over time during the pandemic. In total, we analyzed 41,868,013 COVID-19-related tweets in English posted from January 21 to July 31, 2020. Using a stage model, the results demonstrated that there were three stages during the pandemic characterized by distinct emotional changes. The first stage features high anxiety and negative emotions compared with the other stages, possibly due to the lack of information about the disease. The second stage shows the dynamic ride of all emotions and an increase in negative emotions (particularly anger) as the COVID-19 pandemic proceeds. In the third stage, most emotions are stabilized, except for depression, despite the protracted pandemic.
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