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. 2021 Nov 5:12:740879.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740879. eCollection 2021.

The Impact of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Chinese Middle School Students' Self-Perceived Emotional States: A Wuhan Perspective

Yan Huang  1 , Jinyan Huang  2 , Tingting Wang  1 , Siying Xu  3 , Jialing Li  1
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The Impact of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Chinese Middle School Students' Self-Perceived Emotional States: A Wuhan Perspective

Yan Huang et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This mixed-methods study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 1493 Grades 7, 8, and 9 students' self-perceived emotional states in Wuhan, China when it was locked down for the pandemic on January 23, 2020 and when the lockdown was lifted on April 8, 2020, as well as the changes of their emotional states over the 1-year period after the lockdown was lifted. A five-point Likert scale survey was administered to the participants between March 1 and April 1, 2020 when Wuhan was blocked down; and three focus group interviews were conducted between May 1 and May 31, 2021, 1 year after the lockdown was lifted. The results showed that these students in Wuhan experienced feelings of loss of control and negative emotions when the city was locked down and they were home quarantined; furthermore, there were significant differences for their self-perceived feelings of loss of control and negative emotions across demographic variables of gender, grade level, physical activity, social economic status, and family cohesion; finally, their emotional states changed substantially at different time nodes during this pandemic. Implications for students, parents, and schools are discussed.

Keywords: emotional states; feelings of loss of control; middle school students; negative emotions; the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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