文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Social Isolation, Loneliness and Well-Being: The Impact of WeChat Use Intensity During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

作者：Li, Jianfeng[1];Zhou, Luyang[2];van der Heijden, Beatrice[3,4,5,6,7];Li, Shengxiao[2];Tao, Hong[2];Guo, Zhiwen[8]

机构：[1]Hubei Univ, Sch Business, Dept Big Data Management & Applicat, Wuhan, Peoples R China;[2]Shaoxing Univ, Sch Business, Dept Business Adm, Shaoxing, Peoples R China;[3]Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Inst Management Res, Nijmegen, Netherlands;[4]Open Univ Netherlands, Fac Management, Heerlen, Netherlands;[5]Univ Ghent, Dept Mkt Innovat & Org, Ghent, Belgium;[6]Hubei Univ, Sch Business, Wuhan, Peoples R China;[7]Kingston Univ, Kingston Business Sch, London, England;[8]Hubei Univ, Sch Business, Dept Human Resource Management, Wuhan, Peoples R China

年份：2021

卷号：12

外文期刊名：FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

收录：SSCI(收录号：WOS:000687646800001)、、Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85113390163)、WOS

语种：英文

外文关键词：lockdown social isolation; lockdown loneliness; well-being (lockdown stress and lockdown life satisfaction); lockdown WeChat use intensity; COVID-19

外文摘要：This study is aimed to examine the impact of WeChat use intensity on social isolation, loneliness, and well-being during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the regulatory loop model of loneliness, the notions of Internet Paradox, the Time Displacement hypothesis and previous literature on WeChat use intensity, we propose that lockdown loneliness (partially) mediates the relationship between lockdown WeChat use intensity and well-being (i.e., lockdown stress and lockdown life satisfaction). Moreover, we assume that lockdown WeChat use intensity moderates the relationship between lockdown social isolation and well-being (i.e., lockdown stress and lockdown life satisfaction) in both a direct and in an indirect way, that is through lockdown loneliness. The results from our Structural Equation Modeling analyses, using a sample of 1,805 Chinese respondents, indicate that all of our research hypotheses are confirmed. From this empirical work, it becomes clear that online social interactions, which are believed by many people to be able to compensate for the lack of offline social interactions during the COVID-19 lockdown period, in fact are endangering their mental health and life satisfaction instead. This article concludes with theoretical and practical implications of our study, followed by its limitations and recommendations for future research.