Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress during lockdown due to COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Several governments have implemented strict measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdown measures. However, these measures have brought negative consequences at an individual level by exacerbating the psychological distress caused by the pandemic. We evaluated the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) on the levels of anxiety and depression during the lockdown in a sample of 663 Spanish-speaking adults, while controlling for variables related to social support, hobbies, seeking information related to COVID-19, perceived risk of infection, time of assessment, number of deaths and contagions during the assessment and age. Using multiple regression analyses with a stepwise model selection procedure, 29% of the variance in anxiety and 38% of the variance of depr

SUBMITTER: Rodas JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652999 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature