Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies Sapienza, University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530-0701, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 27;18(11):5742. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115742.
(1) Background: The COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a unique challenge as a severe global crisis affecting physical and psychological health. The main purpose of this work is to study the impact of a traumatic event while also observing the human ability to adapt. One of the first theories to study the adaptive importance of the evolutionary lineage of the affective systems is referred to as BrainMind (Panksepp, 2010). This study aims to explore whether primary emotional systems (PES) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies show differences between the pre- and post- lockdown period; and if positive systems and specific emotion regulation pre-pandemic act as a protective or risk factor for mental and physical wellbeing. (2) Methods: 98 participants who had participated in a previous study before the pandemic were re-contacted to refill the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) after the outbreak of the pandemic with the addition of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R). (3) Results: The results showed that the COVID-19 lockdown rules had an impact on Emotional Regulation and on a re-balancing of PES. Moreover, pre-pandemic expressive-suppressive ERQ strategies and ANPS SADNESS scores appeared as relevant risk factors, which predicted higher Global Severity Index (GSI) scores during lockdown. (4) Conclusions: The lockdown appears to have activated PLAY and CARE as protective systems, but has detuned the ability to positively reinterpret the situation.
（1）背景：2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行是一场严重的全球危机，对身心健康造成了独特的挑战。这项工作的主要目的是研究创伤性事件的影响，同时观察人类的适应能力。最早研究情感系统进化谱系适应重要性的理论之一被称为脑与心智（Panksepp，2010）。本研究旨在探讨初级情绪系统（PES）和情绪调节（ER）策略是否在封锁前后存在差异；以及积极系统和特定的情绪调节在大流行前是否作为心理健康和身体健康的保护或风险因素。（2）方法：联系了 98 名曾参加过大流行前研究的参与者，在大流行爆发后重新填写了情感神经科学人格量表（ANPS）和情绪调节问卷（ERQ），并增加了症状清单-90 修订版（SCL-90R）。（3）结果：结果表明，COVID-19 封锁规则对情绪调节和 PES 的再平衡产生了影响。此外，大流行前的表达抑制 ERQ 策略和 ANPS 悲伤分数似乎是相关的风险因素，它们预测了封锁期间更高的全球严重度指数（GSI）分数。（4）结论：封锁似乎激活了 PLAY 和 CARE 作为保护系统，但削弱了积极重新解释情况的能力。
