ArticleScientific reports2022
Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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- Co-occurrence of dissociation and anxiety and depressive disorders in adults: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Dissociative symptoms during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic situation in mental health patients.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Ethical Climate, Intrinsic Motivation, and Affective Commitment: The Impact of Depersonalization.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Correction.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Article
- Sensorimotor Simulation's Influence on Stress: EEG and Autonomic Responses in Digital Interviews.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- When you avoid your feelings, you may feel even worse: how depersonalization puts you at risk of depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- I overthink-Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder.Consciousness and cognition · 2022Article
- Emotional Contagion: Research on the Influencing Factors of Social Media Users' Negative Emotional Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Depersonalisation is a common dissociative experience characterised by distressing feelings of being detached or 'estranged' from one's self and body and/or the world. The COVID-19 pandemic forcing millions of people to socially distance themselves from others and to change their lifestyle habits. We have conducted an online study of 622 participants worldwide to investigate the relationship between digital media-based activities, distal social interactions and peoples' sense of self during the lockdown as contrasted with before the pandemic. We found that increased use of digital media-based activities and online social e-meetings correlated with higher feelings of depersonalisation. We also found that the participants reporting higher experiences of depersonalisation, also reported enhanced vividness of negative emotions (as opposed to positive emotions). Finally, participants who reported that lockdown influenced their life to a greater extent had higher occurrences of depersonalisation experiences. Our findings may help to address key questions regarding well-being during a lockdown, in the general population. Our study points to potential risks related to overly sedentary, and hyper-digitalised lifestyle habits that may induce feelings of living in one's 'head' (mind), disconnected from one's body, self and the world.
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