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What is the public significance of this article? East Asian Americans confronted with anti-Asian microaggressions during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic who engaged with the aggressor had more stress, but better mental health outcomes compared to participants who ignored microaggressions. An unanticipated outcome of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been increased Sinophobia directed toward Asian Americans. The present study used a mixed-methods design and investigated how 345 East Asian Americans responded to COVID-19-related microaggressions and how their responses affected stress and well-being. The qualitative data included 196 narratives describing anti-Asian microaggressions experienced by participants during COVID-19. Four themes emerged from narratives including nonverbal rejection responses, verbal rejection, physical assault, and exposure to aggression on the social media. Additionally, quantitative data collected participants' responses to scales measuring microaggressions, personal resilience, social support, coping strategies (engagement and disengagement coping), stress, and psychological well-being. Path analysis showed that participants who reported more microaggressions experienced significantly more stress. Participants with more social support had better psychological well-being. Those with stronger personal resilience were more likely to use engagement coping. Even though engagement coping was associated with more stress, confronting aggressors was also associated with better psychological well-being compared to ignoring the threat (disengagement coping). Implications of these findings are discussed.
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This study examined the moderating effects of parent-child, same-sex, opposite-sex and teacher-student relationships between sibling status and loneliness during COVID-19. A total of 1,591 adolescents in China completed the study questionnaires which assessed the aforementioned variables. The results showed that same-sex and teacher-student relationships moderated the association between sibling status and loneliness. The results indicated that among participants with good same-sex relationships during COVID-19, compared to non-only-children participants, the only-children participants were more likely to experience a lower level of loneliness. However, participants with poor same-sex relationships experienced similar level of loneliness regardless of whether they had siblings. These findings would be helpful for parents, teachers, and other stakeholders to take effective measures to reduce loneliness feelings among Chinese adolescents.
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To investigate the impact of COVID-19 traffic control policies on population flow in Changsha, this paper divided the prevention and traffic control policies into different stages corresponding to the real-time epidemic situation in Changsha. Based on Baidu migration big data, the difference- in- difference model was used to identify different stages of traffic prevention and control policies and quantify the effect of prevention. With the traffic control policy implemented during COVID-19, the average inflow intensity of Changsha City decreased by 83.68%, the average outflow intensity decreased by 69.24% and the internal travel intensity respectively, decreased by 59.74%. After the end of the traffic control policies, the population flow intensity of Changsha City gradually rebounded, and the urban internal travel intensity basically recovered to the same level as in 2019. The results indicated the effectiveness of the traffic control policies on the limitation of population flow and epidemic spread. The results also provide reference for making effective prevention and control policies for the normalized COVID-19 epidemic situations. Copyright © 2021 by Science Press.