Correction: A decline in perceived social status leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults half a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: consideration of the mediation effect of perceived vulnerability to disease

Wang, Yean; Xu, Shuge; Chen, Yue; Liu, Haijuan

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1738903

CORRECTION article

Front. Psychiatry, 19 November 2025

Sec. Anxiety and Stress Disorders

Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1738903

Correction: A decline in perceived social status leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults half a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: consideration of the mediation effect of perceived vulnerability to disease

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A decline in perceived social status leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults half a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: consideration of the mediation effect of perceived vulnerability to disease
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Yean Wang¹

Shuge Xu¹

Yue Chen¹

Haijuan Liu^2*

¹School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
²School of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

A Correction on
A decline in perceived social status leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults half a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: consideration of the mediation effect of perceived vulnerability to disease

By Wang Y, Xu S, Chen Y and Liu H (2023) Front. Psychiatry. 14:1217264. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1217264

Author Shuge Xu was erroneously assigned to affiliation "School of Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China". This affiliation has now been removed. The correct affiliation for Shuge Xu is "¹School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China".

The original version of this article has been updated.

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Keywords: COVID-19, perceived social status, post-traumatic stress disorder, perceived vulnerability to disease, Hubei China, propensity score matching

Citation: Wang Y, Xu S, Chen Y and Liu H (2025) Correction: A decline in perceived social status leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults half a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: consideration of the mediation effect of perceived vulnerability to disease. Front. Psychiatry 16:1738903. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1738903

Received: 04 November 2025; Accepted: 06 November 2025; Revised: 04 November 2025;
Published: 19 November 2025.

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*Correspondence: Haijuan Liu, MzMxMjYwOTkyQHFxLmNvbQ==

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