{"id":8084,"date":"2020-07-09T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:08:45","slug":"self-control-moderates-the-association-between-perceived-severity-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-mental-health-problems-among-the-chinese-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/self-control-moderates-the-association-between-perceived-severity-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-mental-health-problems-among-the-chinese-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Control Moderates the Association Between Perceived Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Mental Health Problems Among the Chinese Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Based on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0national\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">survey\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of China\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conducted in February 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=4,607)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">after controlling for demographic variables, perceived severity of COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was associated with likelihood of mental health problems.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">elf-control\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(the a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bility to override or change\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">one\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inner responses and to interrupt undesired behavioral tendencies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was found to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">moderate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">association between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">perceived severity of COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mental health problems<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ompared to those with high self-control,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Li et al. found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">individuals with low self-control are more vulnerable and are more in need of psychological aids to maintain mental health\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Li et al. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">4,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Self-Control Moderates the Association Between Perceived Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Mental Health Problems Among the Chinese Public. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph17134820\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph17134820<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on\u00a0a\u00a0national\u00a0survey\u00a0of China\u00a0conducted in February 2020\u00a0(n=4,607),\u00a0after controlling for demographic variables, perceived severity of COVID-19\u00a0was associated with likelihood of mental health problems.\u00a0Self-control\u00a0(the ability to override or change\u00a0one\u2019s\u00a0inner responses and to interrupt undesired behavioral tendencies)\u00a0was found to\u00a0moderate\u00a0the\u00a0association between\u00a0perceived severity of COVID-19\u00a0and\u00a0mental health problems.\u00a0Compared to those with high self-control,\u00a0Li et al. found that\u00a0individuals with low self-control are more&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/self-control-moderates-the-association-between-perceived-severity-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-mental-health-problems-among-the-chinese-public\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}