Khatibi Ali, Sharpe Louise, Dehghani Mohsen, Ghalibaf Erfan, Hosseinchi Parham, Mazidi Mahdi, Ranjbar Seyran, Deldar Zoha, Gevers-Montoro Carlos, Alizadeh Pouyan, Alidoust Shaghayegh, Babaei Arghavan, Telkabadi Fattaneh, Ghadiri Tahereh
Centre of Precision Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 26;12:778375. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.778375. eCollection 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased uncertainty, fear and worry in everyone's life. The effect of changes in daily life has been studied widely, but we do not know how emotion-regulation strategies influence adaptation to a new situation to help them overcome worry in the face of uncertainty. Here, 1,064 self-selected Farsi speaking participants completed an online battery of questionnaires that measured fear of virus and illness, worry, intolerance of uncertainty, and emotion regulation (two subscales: reappraisal, suppression). We also documented the number of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths due to COVID-19 on the day in which participants completed the questionnaire. Our findings suggest a correlation between contamination fear and the number of daily-confirmed cases (r = 0.11), and the number of reported deaths due to COVID-19 (r = 0.09). Worry mediated the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of virus and illness (b = 0.16, 0.1141 < CI < 0.2113). In addition, suppression moderated the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and worry ( < 0.01). Our results suggest that suppression (at least in the short term) can be an adaptive response to the worry associated with uncertainty. Suppression can reduce worry, which in turn can decrease fear of contamination and improve adaptation to social distancing requirements. Although, the observed correlations were significant, but considering the sample size, they are not strong, and they should be interpreted cautiously.
新冠疫情给每个人的生活都带来了更多的不确定性、恐惧和担忧。日常生活变化所产生的影响已得到广泛研究，但我们尚不清楚情绪调节策略如何影响人们适应新情况，以帮助他们在面对不确定性时克服担忧。在此，1064名自行选择的讲波斯语的参与者完成了一系列在线问卷调查，这些问卷测量了对病毒和疾病的恐惧、担忧、对不确定性的不耐受以及情绪调节（两个子量表：重新评价、抑制）。我们还记录了参与者完成问卷当天的每日新冠病例数和新冠死亡人数。我们的研究结果表明，对感染的恐惧与每日确诊病例数（r = 0.11）以及报告的新冠死亡人数（r = 0.09）之间存在相关性。担忧在对不确定性的不耐受与对病毒和疾病的恐惧之间起到了中介作用（b = 0.16，0.1141 < 置信区间 < 0.2113）。此外，抑制调节了对不确定性的不耐受与担忧之间的关系（< 0.01）。我们的结果表明，抑制（至少在短期内）可能是对与不确定性相关的担忧的一种适应性反应。抑制可以减少担忧，进而减少对感染的恐惧，并改善对社交距离要求的适应。尽管观察到的相关性是显著的，但考虑到样本量，它们并不强，应谨慎解释。
