Flexible emotion regulatory selection when coping with COVID-19-related threats during quarantine.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant emotional challenges that individuals need to select how to regulate. The present study directly examined how during the pandemic, healthy individuals select between regulatory strategies to cope with varying COVID-19-related threats, and whether an adaptive flexible regulatory selection pattern will emerge in this unique threatening global context. Accordingly, this two-study investigation tested how healthy individuals during a strict state issued quarantine, behaviorally select to regulate COVID-19-related threats varying in their intensity. Study 1 created and validated an ecologically relevant set of low and high intensity sentences covering major COVID-19 facets that include experiencing physical symptoms, infection threats, and social and econ

SUBMITTER: Shabat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563799 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature