Abstract
The outbreak of coronavirus disease greatly affected people's lives, which limited residents’’ behavioral space due to the nationwide lockdown, and passively increased their non-working hours. In this contradictory situation, it is worth to analyze people’s daily behaviors, physical activity, and mood states during the period. In late January 2020, China has enacted emergency lockdown policy to curb the spread of the virus, so many people had to in their working cities for the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year. The online survey (N=922) investigated how people maintained their basic living needs, what activities they conducted, whether their lifestyles changed, the amount of physical activity they performed, and the state of their moods during the epidemic lockdown overlapping the special festival. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests, and ordered logistic regressions were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the majority of people conducted passive daily activity, involved in seriously insufficient physical activity, and suffered feelings of anxiety and fatigue during the period. Demographic differences in preferred leisure activities, average daily steps, and states of mood were found among the respondents. In the face of the severe challenge of the epidemic, attention has been paid to infected patients and front-line personnel, but the health status of the non-disease population should not be neglected. This study showed the active status, as well as physical and mood status of people during the lockdown period in the early stage of the epidemic, providing implications for formulating strategies to cope with the problem of the imbalance in non-working time and behavioral space due to the lockdown. In order to maintain the physical and mental health of the residents, we should optimize the behavioral space, advocate daily active activity, improve green space for relieving stress, and formulate appropriate health promotion measures based on the characteristics of the population.
