Universidad de Guayaquil, Faculty of Psychological Sciences, University of Guayaquil, Cdla. Universitaria Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Int J Psychol. 2022 Jun;57(3):315-324. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12818. Epub 2021 Nov 7.
Several governments have implemented strict measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdown measures. However, these measures have brought negative consequences at an individual level by exacerbating the psychological distress caused by the pandemic. We evaluated the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) on the levels of anxiety and depression during the lockdown in a sample of 663 Spanish-speaking adults, while controlling for variables related to social support, hobbies, seeking information related to COVID-19, perceived risk of infection, time of assessment, number of deaths and contagions during the assessment and age. Using multiple regression analyses with a stepwise model selection procedure, 29% of the variance in anxiety and 38% of the variance of depression were found to be predicted by specific CERS. The impact of CERS on anxiety and depression was moderated by the sex of participants and the time of assessment, indicating that CERS did not have the same protective or harmful effects in all participants and situations. Based on our results, recommendations are provided for improving coping with stressful events where lockdown measures are taken.
一些政府已经实施了严格的措施来减少 COVID-19 的传播，例如封锁措施。然而，这些措施通过加剧大流行带来的心理困扰，在个人层面带来了负面后果。我们评估了认知情绪调节策略（CERS）在 663 名讲西班牙语的成年人样本中对封锁期间焦虑和抑郁水平的作用，同时控制了与社会支持、爱好、寻求与 COVID-19 相关信息、感染风险感知、评估时间、评估期间死亡人数和传染人数和年龄。使用逐步模型选择程序的多元回归分析，发现焦虑的方差的 29%和抑郁的方差的 38%可以由特定的 CERS 来预测。CERS 对焦虑和抑郁的影响受到参与者性别的和评估时间的调节，这表明 CERS 在所有参与者和情况下并不具有相同的保护或有害影响。基于我们的结果，为在采取封锁措施的情况下改善应对压力事件提供了建议。
