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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation
(1) Background: The COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a unique challenge as a severe global crisis affecting physical and psychological health. The main purpose of this work is to study the impact of a traumatic event while also observing the human ability to adapt. One of the first...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34071872 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115742 |
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author | Mariani, Rachele Renzi, Alessia Di Monte, Cinzia Petrovska, Elena Di Trani, Michela |
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description | (1) Background: The COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a unique challenge as a severe global crisis affecting physical and psychological health. The main purpose of this work is to study the impact of a traumatic event while also observing the human ability to adapt. One of the first theories to study the adaptive importance of the evolutionary lineage of the affective systems is referred to as BrainMind (Panksepp, 2010). This study aims to explore whether primary emotional systems (PES) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies show differences between the pre- and post- lockdown period; and if positive systems and specific emotion regulation pre-pandemic act as a protective or risk factor for mental and physical wellbeing. (2) Methods: 98 participants who had participated in a previous study before the pandemic were re-contacted to refill the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) after the outbreak of the pandemic with the addition of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R). (3) Results: The results showed that the COVID-19 lockdown rules had an impact on Emotional Regulation and on a re-balancing of PES. Moreover, pre-pandemic expressive–suppressive ERQ strategies and ANPS SADNESS scores appeared as relevant risk factors, which predicted higher Global Severity Index (GSI) scores during lockdown. (4) Conclusions: The lockdown appears to have activated PLAY and CARE as protective systems, but has detuned the ability to positively reinterpret the situation. |
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spelling | pubmed-81982092021-06-14 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation Mariani, Rachele Renzi, Alessia Di Monte, Cinzia Petrovska, Elena Di Trani, Michela Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a unique challenge as a severe global crisis affecting physical and psychological health. The main purpose of this work is to study the impact of a traumatic event while also observing the human ability to adapt. One of the first theories to study the adaptive importance of the evolutionary lineage of the affective systems is referred to as BrainMind (Panksepp, 2010). This study aims to explore whether primary emotional systems (PES) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies show differences between the pre- and post- lockdown period; and if positive systems and specific emotion regulation pre-pandemic act as a protective or risk factor for mental and physical wellbeing. (2) Methods: 98 participants who had participated in a previous study before the pandemic were re-contacted to refill the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) after the outbreak of the pandemic with the addition of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R). (3) Results: The results showed that the COVID-19 lockdown rules had an impact on Emotional Regulation and on a re-balancing of PES. Moreover, pre-pandemic expressive–suppressive ERQ strategies and ANPS SADNESS scores appeared as relevant risk factors, which predicted higher Global Severity Index (GSI) scores during lockdown. (4) Conclusions: The lockdown appears to have activated PLAY and CARE as protective systems, but has detuned the ability to positively reinterpret the situation. MDPI 2021-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8198209/ /pubmed/34071872 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115742 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mariani, Rachele Renzi, Alessia Di Monte, Cinzia Petrovska, Elena Di Trani, Michela The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title_full | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title_fullStr | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title_short | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Emotional Systems and Emotional Regulation |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on primary emotional systems and emotional regulation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34071872 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115742 |
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