Regulation strategies during COVID-19 quarantine: The mediating effect of worry on the links between coping strategies and anxiety

A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample

“…These results suggested the importance of taking into account both personality characteristics and dysfunctional coping strategies implemented during the pandemic in order to plan personalized interventions based on these characteristics. Finally, even if our study showed a significant negative correlation between worry and psychological well-being, confirming the results of previous studies (Taylor et al, 2020;Cincidda et al, 2021;Sebri et al, 2021), it emerged that worry levels during the lockdown and at the end of the lockdown did not predict well-being levels 3 months after the end of the lockdown, and vice versa. What turns out to be a predictor of levels of psychological well-being is well-being itself, measured at baseline and at the end of the lockdown.…”

“…Regarding dysfunctional coping strategies, our study confirmed that the use of these strategies was maladaptive, not only because they were correlated to worry levels as found in our previous study (Sebri et al, 2021), but also because they predicted the increase of the level of worry 3 months after the end of the lockdown. Moreover, in another study related to the present longitudinal study, it was found that dysfunctional coping strategies at the initial stages of COVID-19 increased the levels of worry which in turn mediated the relationship between the aforementioned coping strategies and state anxiety enhancing it (Cincidda et al, 2021). These results suggested the importance of taking into account both personality characteristics and dysfunctional coping strategies implemented during the pandemic in order to plan personalized interventions based on these characteristics.…”

“…Indeed the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns brought a huge number of psychological and sociological studies to account for international citizens' experience. The limitations imposed to work and movement improved notable economic losses (Cerami et al, 2020;Codagnone et al, 2020) and the lockdown triggered negative psychological consequences in healthy populations, mostly in terms of anxiety and distress (Castelli et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020;Cincidda et al, 2021;Petrocchi et al, 2021), depression (Meda et al, 2021) and even traumatic symptoms (Johnson et al, 2020;Masiero et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2021) creating a burden that mental health services are likely to deal with for a long time (D'Agostino et al, 2020;Lasalvia et al, 2021). Qualitative research based on the critical incident technique (Durosini et al, 2021) showed that healthy citizens were able to experience also positive events during the lockdown (e.g., in terms of cultivation and enjoinment of relationships with loved ones), but at the same time they were subjected to notable emotional distress: for example, the daily experience of the lockdown, along with the alarming messages coming from the media and the unreal perception of emptiness and isolation in the cities, were connected to a novel "sensation of emergency" accompanied by everlasting negative arousal.…”

Remote Psychological Interventions for Fear of Cancer Recurrence: Scoping Review

“…Currently, patients with cancer and survivors experience higher levels of loneliness, FCR, anxiety, and depression because of the diffusion of COVID-19. Indeed, the pandemic forced people to social distance and caused several challenges for patients with cancer and survivors, such as maintaining social support and continuing their cancer treatment or medical check-ups regularly [7][8][9][10]. Despite the current situation, the need to identify effective evidence-based treatments to help people cope with FCR has increased in the past decade.…”

Emotional State and Social Media Experience: A Pandemic Case Study

“…A US national survey [27] suggested that worry is a mediator that positively connects social media use and misinformed beliefs, while discussion heterogeneity preference is negatively associated with misinformed beliefs. Another online survey [28] was performed among Italians to investigate worry and anxiety. The authors proposed that worry mediates the relationship between coping strategies and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”