Martins-Klein Bruna, Griffith Eric E, Heideman Kristin, Orlovsky Irina, Chen Ziyuan, Alwan Elizabeth
Department of Psychology, University Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
Clin Gerontol. 2024 Feb 17:1-14. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2024.2316688.
COVID-19 escalated stress within family/neighborhood (local) and national/cultural (global) levels. However, the impact of socioecological levels of stress on pandemic emotion regulation remains largely unexplored.
Thirty older adults from the Northeast US (63-92 years) reported on pandemic stress and emotion regulation in semi-structured interviews. Responses were coded into socioecological sources of local and global stress, and associated use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies from the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire was explored.
Older adults experienced significant distress at global levels, and perception of lacking top-down safety governance may have exacerbated local distress of engaging in daily activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants endorsed coping with local stressors via perspective-taking, acceptance, and other adaptive strategies, while global sources of stress were associated with greater use of maladaptive strategies, including other-blame and rumination.
Quantitative assessments may underestimate significant older adult distress and maladaptive coping toward global stressors. Findings should be replicated with more diverse populations beyond the COVID-19 context.
新冠疫情加剧了家庭/邻里（局部）和国家/文化（全球）层面的压力。然而，社会生态层面的压力对疫情期间情绪调节的影响在很大程度上仍未得到探索。
来自美国东北部的30名老年人（63 - 92岁）在半结构化访谈中报告了疫情压力和情绪调节情况。回答被编码为局部和全球压力的社会生态来源，并探讨了《认知情绪调节问卷》中相关认知情绪调节策略的使用情况。
老年人在全球层面经历了显著的痛苦，而对缺乏自上而下的安全治理的认知可能加剧了新冠疫情期间参与日常活动的局部痛苦。参与者认可通过换位思考、接纳和其他适应性策略应对局部压力源，而全球压力源与更多地使用适应不良策略相关，包括指责他人和反复思考。
定量评估可能低估了老年人对全球压力源的显著痛苦和适应不良应对。研究结果应在新冠疫情背景之外的更多样化人群中进行重复验证。
