Casale Silvia, Flett Gordon L
Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence (Italy).
Department of Psychology, York University (ON, Canada),
Clin Neuropsychiatry. 2020 Apr;17(2):88-93. doi: 10.36131/CN20200211.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently spreading in all the areas of the world. This ongoing pandemic has clear impacts in terms of the relevance of psychological needs. Psychological needs such as self-esteem, self-actualization, and relatedness only become relevant once basic physiological needs and safety and survivor needs have been satisfied. Because psychological constructs are not objectively existing constituents of reality but rather efforts to represent it, they tend to become more or less relevant and salient as a function of prevailing conditions. Starting from this premise, the current paper focuses on the relevance that fears with an interpersonal basis (i.e. the fear of missing out and the fear of not mattering) have during a period in which physical distancing or "social distancing" has been implicated as a crucial important public health intervention that can help stop transmission of the coronavirus. We underscore how the current health crisis impacts the self and identity of people who are confronted with the discrepancy between their usual psychological needs and current realities.
严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）目前正在世界所有地区传播。这场持续的大流行对心理需求的相关性产生了明显影响。只有在基本生理需求以及安全和生存需求得到满足后，诸如自尊、自我实现和人际关系等心理需求才会变得重要。由于心理建构并非现实中客观存在的组成部分，而是对现实的表征努力，它们往往会根据当前状况或多或少地变得相关和突出。基于这一前提，本文重点关注在身体距离或“社交距离”被视为一项至关重要的公共卫生干预措施以帮助阻止冠状病毒传播的时期，具有人际基础（即害怕错过和害怕无关紧要）的恐惧的相关性。我们强调当前的健康危机如何影响那些面临其通常心理需求与当前现实之间差异的人们的自我和身份认同。
