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Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic
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 f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.778375 |
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author | Khatibi, Ali Sharpe, Louise Dehghani, Mohsen Ghalibaf, Erfan Hosseinchi, Parham Mazidi, Mahdi Ranjbar, Seyran Deldar, Zoha Gevers-Montoro, Carlos Alizadeh, Pouyan Alidoust, Shaghayegh Babaei, Arghavan Telkabadi, Fattaneh Ghadiri, Tahereh |
author_facet | Khatibi, Ali Sharpe, Louise Dehghani, Mohsen Ghalibaf, Erfan Hosseinchi, Parham Mazidi, Mahdi Ranjbar, Seyran Deldar, Zoha Gevers-Montoro, Carlos Alizadeh, Pouyan Alidoust, Shaghayegh Babaei, Arghavan Telkabadi, Fattaneh Ghadiri, Tahereh |
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description | 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 (p < 0.01). Our results suggest that suppression (at least in the short term) can be an adaptive response to the worry associated with uncertainty. Suppression can reduce worry, which in turn can decrease fear of contamination and improve adaptation to social distancing requirements. Although, the observed correlations were significant, but considering the sample size, they are not strong, and they should be interpreted cautiously. |
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spelling | pubmed-86623432021-12-11 Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic Khatibi, Ali Sharpe, Louise Dehghani, Mohsen Ghalibaf, Erfan Hosseinchi, Parham Mazidi, Mahdi Ranjbar, Seyran Deldar, Zoha Gevers-Montoro, Carlos Alizadeh, Pouyan Alidoust, Shaghayegh Babaei, Arghavan Telkabadi, Fattaneh Ghadiri, Tahereh Front Psychiatry Psychiatry 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 (p < 0.01). Our results suggest that suppression (at least in the short term) can be an adaptive response to the worry associated with uncertainty. Suppression can reduce worry, which in turn can decrease fear of contamination and improve adaptation to social distancing requirements. Although, the observed correlations were significant, but considering the sample size, they are not strong, and they should be interpreted cautiously. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8662343/ /pubmed/34899432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.778375 Text en Copyright © 2021 Khatibi, Sharpe, Dehghani, Ghalibaf, Hosseinchi, Mazidi, Ranjbar, Deldar, Gevers-Montoro, Alizadeh, Alidoust, Babaei, Telkabadi and Ghadiri. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Khatibi, Ali Sharpe, Louise Dehghani, Mohsen Ghalibaf, Erfan Hosseinchi, Parham Mazidi, Mahdi Ranjbar, Seyran Deldar, Zoha Gevers-Montoro, Carlos Alizadeh, Pouyan Alidoust, Shaghayegh Babaei, Arghavan Telkabadi, Fattaneh Ghadiri, Tahereh Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | suppression may improve adaptation to worry when facing uncertainty: studying covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.778375 |
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