Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Department of Clinical Psychology; PFH-Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.
PLoS One. 2022 Jan 7;17(1):e0262283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262283. eCollection 2022.
In stressful situations such as the COVID-19-pandemic, unpleasant emotions are expected to increase while pleasant emotions will likely decrease. Little is known about the role cognitive appraisals, information management, and upregulating pleasant emotions can play to support emotion regulation in a pandemic. In an online survey (N = 1682), we investigated predictors of changes in pleasant and unpleasant emotions in a German sample (aged 18-88 years) shortly after the first restrictions were imposed. Crisis self-efficacy and felt restriction were predictors of changes in unpleasant emotions and joy alike. The application of emotion up-regulation strategies was weakly associated with changes in joy. Among the different upregulation strategies, only "savouring the moment" predicted changes in joy. Our study informs future research perspectives assessing the role of upregulating pleasant emotions under challenging circumstances.
在 COVID-19 大流行等压力情况下，预计不愉快的情绪会增加，而愉快的情绪可能会减少。对于认知评估、信息管理和增强愉快情绪在大流行期间支持情绪调节中所起的作用，我们知之甚少。在一项在线调查中（N=1682），我们调查了德国样本（年龄在 18-88 岁之间）在首次实施限制后不久，愉快和不愉快情绪变化的预测因素。危机自我效能感和感觉受限是不愉快情绪和喜悦变化的预测因素。情绪调节策略的应用与喜悦的变化弱相关。在不同的调节策略中，只有“享受当下”可以预测喜悦的变化。我们的研究为评估在具有挑战性的情况下增强愉快情绪的作用提供了未来的研究视角。
