Discrimination and Well-Being Among Asians/Asian Americans During COVID-19: The Role of Social Media

• DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0394
• Publication Date: 2020-08-07T18:16:06Z
• Authors: Chia-chen Yang; Jiun-Yi Tsai; Shuya Pan
• Keywords: Worry

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Asians and Asian Americans have been experiencing an uptick discrimination. With most people months lockdowns, social media may become a particularly important tool in people's coping with Grounded multiactivity framework use, this study explored whether experience discrimination was associated more use among how adaptive for their well-being during COVID-19. A sample 242 Asians/Asian residing United States (Mage = 32.88, SD 11.13; 48 percent female) completed online survey. Results showed that COVID-19 engagement private messaging, posting/commenting, browsing, but activities yielded different implications subjective well-being. Both messaging posting/commenting were perceived support, which contributed to better Social also related through lower worry about In contrast, browsing poorer