Mayorga Nubia A, Manning Kara F, Derrick Jaye L, Viana Andres G, Garey Lorra, Nizio Pamella, Matoska Cameron T, Zvolensky Michael J
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX 77204 USA.
Texas Institute of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, Houston, USA.
Cognit Ther Res. 2022;46(2):358-366. doi: 10.1007/s10608-021-10265-x. Epub 2021 Sep 1.
The outbreak of the novel 2019 SARS2-Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to substantial psychological distress across the United States and the world. However, emerging work suggests that prominent COVID-19 consequences such as fear of COVID-19 infection and emotional distress resulting from economic adversity and social distancing may afflict the Latinx population disproportionately. The current study sought to investigate the influence of experiential avoidance (EA), or an individual's tendency to rigidly avoid negative internal experiences (i.e. feelings, thoughts, etc.), on the severity of COVID-19 fear and emotional distress symptoms due to economic adversity and social distancing.
Participants included 188 Latinx persons recruited via an online survey panel program.
Results indicated that EA was a statistically significant contributing factor to fear of COVID-19 and emotional distress associated with economic adversity and social distancing. These effects were evident over and above the variance accounted for by gender, years living in the United States, education, and COVID-19 related work and home life stress.
Overall, the present work is the first to document empirically EA as it relates to fear of COVID-19 infection and related emotional distress resulting from economic adversity and social distancing among Latinx persons.
2019年新型严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2型疾病（COVID-19）的爆发在全美乃至全球都引发了严重的心理困扰。然而，新出现的研究表明，诸如对COVID-19感染的恐惧以及经济困境和社交距离导致的情绪困扰等突出的COVID-19后果，可能对拉丁裔人群造成的影响尤为严重。本研究旨在调查经验性回避（EA），即个体严格回避负面内在体验（如感受、想法等）的倾向，对因经济困境和社交距离导致的COVID-19恐惧和情绪困扰症状严重程度的影响。
参与者包括通过在线调查小组程序招募的188名拉丁裔人士。
结果表明，经验性回避是导致对COVID-19的恐惧以及与经济困境和社交距离相关的情绪困扰的一个具有统计学意义的影响因素。这些影响在排除了性别、在美国居住年限、教育程度以及与COVID-19相关的工作和家庭生活压力所解释的方差之后仍然显著。
总体而言，本研究首次通过实证记录了经验性回避与拉丁裔人群对COVID-19感染的恐惧以及经济困境和社交距离导致的相关情绪困扰之间的关系。
