During the COVID-19 outbreak, lockdown measures have been deployed worldwide. In the wake of these measures, internet and social media use has reached unprecedented peaks. We hypothesize that social media can, in the context of the pandemic, be a placeholder for collective resilient processes modulated by cognitive and emotional components. An online survey (N = 1408) using a cross-sectional design was carried out over nine weeks from the beginning of March 2020 to the end of May 2020. The triangulation via SEM statistical modeling, text mining, and sentiment, discriminant, and entropy analyses revealed the granular functional role of social media use in promoting a positive perception towards stressors during the pandemic. This study provides an empirically tested theoretical framework to understand the evolution of buffering mechanisms of social media use as a result of collective resilience. Recommendations on social media use for future lockdown scenarios were provided.

在COVID-19爆发期间，锁定措施已在全球范围内部署。在采取这些措施之后，互联网和社交媒体的使用达到了前所未有的高峰。我们假设在大流行的背景下，社交媒体可以充当由认知和情感成分调节的集体弹性过程的占位符。一项网上调查（ñ 从2020年3月开始到2020年5月结束，历时9周进行了横截面设计（= 1408）。通过SEM统计建模，文本挖掘以及情感，判别和熵分析进行的三角剖分揭示了粒状函数在大流行期间使用社交媒体在促进对压力源的积极认识方面的作用。这项研究提供了一个经过实验检验的理论框架，以了解由于集体适应力而导致的社交媒体使用缓冲机制的演变。提供了有关将社交媒体用于未来锁定方案的建议。