Table 2.
Correlations between negative emotions, the self-limiting mobility pattern, and the daily number of new COVID-19 cases, by phase
| Alarm phase (19th–26th January) |
Epidemic phase (27th January–15th February) |
Relief phase (16th February –31st March) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | S | C | N | S | C | N | S | C | |
| The daily number of negative comments per post (N) | 1 | 0.714* | 0.881** | 1 | −0.665* | −0.286 | 1 | 0.267 | 0.405** |
| The daily percent of the self-limiting mobility pattern (S) | 0.714* | 1 | 0.690 | −0.665* | 1 | 0.531* | 0.267 | 1 | 0.693** |
| New COVID-19 cases on the previous day (C) | 0.881** | 0.690 | 1 | −0.286 | 0.531* | 1 | 0.405** | 0.693** | 1 |
*The correlation was significant at 0.05.
**The correlation was significant at 0.01.