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. 2022 Jul 5:13:945928.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945928. eCollection 2022.

The Relationship Between Public Risk Familiarity and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Epidemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

Rui Qiu  1 , Xia Zhu  1
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The Relationship Between Public Risk Familiarity and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Epidemic: A Moderated Mediation Model

Rui Qiu et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

In order to explore, from the perspective of the social ecological model, the relationship and its mechanism linking public risk familiarity and mental health during the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the new coronary pneumonia epidemic risk perception scale, psychological resilience scale, Chinese mental health scale, and SARS familiarity scale were used 741 members of the public were surveyed as research objects. The results show that: (1) When gender, age, and educational background are controlled, risk familiarity has a significant positive predictive effect on public mental health; (2) Risk familiarity predicts mental health through the mediating effect of mental toughness; (3) The mediating effect of mental toughness is moderated by the public's familiarity with SARS. Specifically, for members of the public with low SARS familiarity, the indirect effect of risk familiarity on mental health through mental toughness is smaller than that for those with high SARS familiarity. The results of this study integrate psychological resilience into the theory of risk cognition, which has implications for the improvement of public mental health.

Keywords: SARS familiarity; mental health; mental toughness; psychological resilience; risk familiarity.

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Conflict of interest statement

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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Moderating effect of familiarity with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on the relationship between resilience and mental health.
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Holistic model of risk familiarity (COVID-19), resilience, familiarity with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and mental health. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
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