Panno Angelo, Theodorou Annalisa, Massullo Chiara, Bratman Gregory N, Imperatori Claudio, Carbone Giuseppe A, Gross James J
Cognitive and Clinical Psychology Laboratory, Department of Human Science, European University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Department of Education, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
Health Care Women Int. 2023 Jul-Sep;44(7-8):885-902. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2022.2083622. Epub 2022 Jun 28.
Many researchers suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic may have more negative effects on women than men. Accordingly, we hypothesized that women would experience greater COVID-19 related distress and more psychopathological symptoms than men during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Moreover, we expected emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, as protective and risk factors respectively) to interact with gender in shaping psychological health. We administered an online questionnaire to 1519 participants during the first national COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. As predicted, women reported greater COVID-19 related distress and more psychopathological symptoms than men. Furthermore, women who made greater use of reappraisal reported lower levels of distress and fewer psychopathological symptoms. Suppression was associated with more psychopathological symptoms, but there were no interaction effects with gender. Our findings have implications for policymakers wishing to sustain women's health during stressful situations such as the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond.
许多研究人员认为，新冠疫情对女性的负面影响可能比男性更大。因此，我们推测，在意大利首次实施新冠疫情封锁期间，女性会比男性经历更多与新冠疫情相关的困扰和更多的心理病理症状。此外，我们预期情绪调节策略（分别作为保护因素和风险因素的认知重评和表达抑制）在塑造心理健康方面会与性别产生相互作用。在意大利首次全国新冠疫情封锁期间，我们对1519名参与者进行了一项在线问卷调查。正如预期的那样，女性报告的与新冠疫情相关的困扰和心理病理症状比男性更多。此外，更多使用重评策略的女性报告的困扰水平更低，心理病理症状也更少。抑制与更多的心理病理症状相关，但与性别没有相互作用效应。我们的研究结果对希望在新冠疫情爆发及之后等压力情况下维护女性健康的政策制定者具有启示意义。
