Difficulties with Emotion Regulation during COVID-19 and Associations with Boredom in College Students.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 related restrictions resulted in a significant lifestyle change for many young adults in the United States. Although boredom and emotional self-regulation are clearly connected in empirical research, the question remains of what this association looks like in unique circumstances, such as early in COVID-19 pandemic at the height of restrictions. The purpose of the current study is to identify the association between boredom proneness and emotion regulation in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students who completed a Boredom Coping Survey between October and December 2019 (n = 481) were recruited for a follow-up COVID-19 Boredom Survey in April 2020. Data from this sub-sample (n = 58) were used in a hierarchical regression predicting the role of

SUBMITTER: Weybright EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9404998 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature