Schelhorn, Iris and Schlueter, Swantje and Paintner, Kerstin and Shiban, Youssef and Lugo, Ricardo and Meyer, Marie and Suetterlin, Stefan (2022) Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PLOS ONE, 17 (1): e0262283. ISSN 1932-6203,
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In stressful situations such as the COVID-19-pandemic, unpleasant emotions are expected to increase while pleasant emotions will likely decrease. Little is known about the role cognitive appraisals, information management, and upregulating pleasant emotions can play to support emotion regulation in a pandemic. In an online survey (N = 1682), we investigated predictors of changes in pleasant and unpleasant emotions in a German sample (aged 18-88 years) shortly after the first restrictions were imposed. Crisis self-efficacy and felt restriction were predictors of changes in unpleasant emotions and joy alike. The application of emotion up-regulation strategies was weakly associated with changes in joy. Among the different upregulation strategies, only "savouring the moment" predicted changes in joy. Our study informs future research perspectives assessing the role of upregulating pleasant emotions under challenging circumstances.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | POSITIVE EMOTIONS; IMPACT; PERSONALITY; PEOPLE; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie VI (Pädagogische Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Christof Kuhbandner |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2024 14:04 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2024 14:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/57748 |
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