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Questionnaire
I am a BBA (2 years) student and conducting a research on “Social Media Use and
Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moderator Role of Disaster
Stressor and Mediator Role of Negative Affect” under the supervision of Dr.
Hafsa Zahoor.
To gather the information, I am seeking your assistance and inviting you to
participate in this research study by completing the following questionnaire.

The questionnaire will require approximately 10 mins to complete. I assure you

that the data will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used for academic
purpose. To ensure anonymity, you are not supposed to write your name or name
of your organization anywhere in the questionnaire. Thank you for taking the time
to assist me in my educational endeavors.
Sincerely,

Gender
1 2
Male Female

Age
1 2 3 4 5
18-25 26-33 34-41 42-49 50 & above

1 2 3
Intermediate Graduation Masters and above
Qualification

1 2 3 4 5
1-5(years) 6-10 11-15 16-20 21 & above
Experience
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More
Depression Several than Nearly
Not at all
days half the everyday
days 5 days

D1 Little interest or pleasure in doing things 1 2 3 4 5

D2 Feeling down, depressed or hopeless 1 2 3 4 5

Trouble falling or staying asleep,

D3 1 2 3 4 5
sleeping too much

D4 Feeling tired or having little energy 1 2 3 4 5

D5 Poor appetite or over eating 1 2 3 4 5

Feeling bad about yourself, or that you are

D6 a failure or have let yourself or your family 1 2 3 4 5
down
Trouble concentrating on things, such as
D7 reading the newspaper or watching 1 2 3 4 5
television
Moving or speaking so slowly that other
people could have noticed? or the
D8 opposite, being so fidgety or restless that 1 2 3 4 5
you have been moving around a lot more
than usual

Thoughts that you would be better off

D9 1 2 3 4 5
dead or of hurting yourself in some way
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The following statements concern your views about yourself within the organization. For each item of
the statements below, please indicate one choice by ticking the appropriate number:

Media Exposure More

Hardly Less than an
Never than 5 Often
ever hour
hours

Time spent on corona

ME1 virus information each 1 2 3 4 5
day

Time spent on
ME2 information irrelevant to 1 2 3 4 5
corona virus each day

Use of different media

sources-official media
ME3 1 2 3 4 5
(CCTV, People’s daily,
Hubei daily)

Use of different media

sources-commercial
ME4 1 2 3 4 5
media (The paper,
Salinan life week, Caixin)

Use of different media

ME5 sources-social media 1 2 3 4 5
(WeChat, Weibo, Tiktok)
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Use of different media

ME6 1 2 3 4 5
sources-overseas media

Media Vicarious Strongly Neither Strongly

Agree
Traumatization Disagree Disagree agree Agree
nor
disagree

MVT I was exposed to distressing news 3

1 2
1 and experiences via media 4 5
I find myself distressed by
MVT
reading the stories and situations 1 2
2 3 4 5
on media

It is hard to stay positive and

MVT optimistic given some of the
1 2
3 information I get from the 3 4 5
media

MVT I find myself thinking about

1 2
4 distressing news on media 3 4 5

Sometimes I feel helpless

MVT
because I cannot give help to 1 2
5 3 4 5
people in need

MVT Sometimes I feel overwhelmed

1 2
6 by reading the media reports 3 4 5

I find it difficult to deal with the

MVT media content 1 2
7 3 4 5
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Strongly Strongly
Anxiety Status Agree
Agree Neutral Disagree
disagree

I feel nervous and anxious due

AS1 1 2
to coronavirus pandemic 3 4 5

I have sleeping problems

AS2 during the coronavirus 1 2
pandemic 3 4 5

I feel panicky and cannot sit

AS3 still easily during the 1 2
coronavirus pandemic 3 4 5