ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- A network analysis on biopsychosocial factors and pain-related outcomes assessed during a COVID-19 lockdown.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Medication adherence among community-dwelling schizophrenia patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.Psychiatry research · 2022Article
- Cultural Perspectives, Feelings and Coping Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Romanian Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Negative interpretation of ambiguous bodily symptoms among illness-anxious individuals: Exploring the role of developmental and maintenance constructs.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased uncertainty, fear and worry in everyone's life. The effect of changes in daily life has been studied widely, but we do not know how emotion-regulation strategies influence adaptation to a new situation to help them overcome worry in the face of uncertainty. Here, 1,064 self-selected Farsi speaking participants completed an online battery of questionnaires that measured fear of virus and illness, worry, intolerance of uncertainty, and emotion regulation (two subscales: reappraisal, suppression). We also documented the number of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths due to COVID-19 on the day in which participants completed the questionnaire. Our findings suggest a correlation between contamination fear and the number of daily-confirmed cases (r = 0.11), and the number of reported deaths due to COVID-19 (r = 0.09). Worry mediated the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of virus and illness (b = 0.16, 0.1141 < CI < 0.2113). In addition, suppression moderated the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and worry (
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