1. The Emergence of a COVID-19 Related Social Capital: The Case of China.
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Bian, Yanjie, Miao, Xiaolei, Lu, Xiaolin, Ma, Xulei, and Guo, Xiaoxian
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COVID-19 ,SOCIAL capital ,COVID-19 pandemic ,CHINESE people ,SOCIAL belonging ,QUALITY of life - Abstract
This paper develops a new concept called virus-combat social capital and presents relevant findings from a survey of 3009 Chinese WeChat networkers. Virus-combat social capital is defined by the intensity and extensity of social connectedness under conditions of physical isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey shows that as compared to their counterparts, Chinese people with higher virus-combat social capital consistently do better in both behavioral responses and measures of quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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