Busonera Alessandra, Tommasi Marco, Piras Ilenia, Galletta Maura
Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, 09042 Cagliari, Italy.
Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Apr 11;13(8):871. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13080871.
The present cross-sectional web-based survey study aimed to examine the impact of gender and frontline/non-frontline condition on psychological health (depression and peritraumatic distress) of a sample of Italian healthcare workers, and to explore the mediating effects of emotional processing in these relationships. Emotional processing styles and depressive and peritraumatic distress symptoms were assessed between March and December 2021, a period which in Italy corresponds to the third and the start of the fourth wave of COVID-19, along with gender, frontline versus non-frontline role in the pandemic emergency, and other sociodemographic and background variables. Results showed that emotional processing mediated the relationship between gender and frontline/non-frontline role with depressive and peritraumatic distress symptomatology. Being a woman, working on the frontlines, and having a maladaptive emotional processing style increased the negative effects of stress during the pandemic. The obtained results strengthen the importance of providing useful psychological support for health professionals to facilitate the expression and management of emotions as well as the learning of healthy and functional styles of emotional processing.
本基于网络的横断面调查研究旨在探讨性别和一线/非一线工作状况对意大利医护人员样本心理健康（抑郁和创伤相关困扰）的影响，并探究情绪加工在这些关系中的中介作用。在2021年3月至12月期间评估了情绪加工方式、抑郁症状和创伤相关困扰症状，这一时期在意大利对应于新冠疫情第三波以及第四波疫情开始阶段，同时还评估了性别、在疫情紧急情况下的一线与非一线角色以及其他社会人口学和背景变量。结果表明，情绪加工在性别与一线/非一线角色和抑郁及创伤相关困扰症状之间起中介作用。女性、从事一线工作以及具有适应不良的情绪加工方式会增加疫情期间压力的负面影响。所得结果强化了为医护人员提供有效心理支持以促进情绪表达和管理以及学习健康且有效的情绪加工方式的重要性。
