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COVID-19 and Its Lockdown in Belgium: How Limited Access to Environmental Satisfaction Impacts Emotions?
Wagener, Aurélie; Stassart, Céline; Etienne, Anne-Marie
2022In Psychologica Belgica, 62 (1), p. 34-46
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Keywords :
COVID-19; lockdown; environmental satisfaction; emotions
Abstract :
[en] The COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to induce several psychological consequences (e.g., increases in anxiety and stress). Accordingly, it seems relevant to investigate how individuals cope with their emotions. Indeed, when facing negative emotions, individuals need to rely on adaptive emotion regulation strategies to alleviate their negative impacts (e.g., decrease in quality of life, increase in sleep disturbances). Moreover, lockdown’s measures led to a restriction of the access to activities which, in turn, might have decreased the “environmental satisfaction”. Then, this research investigates the pandemic’s psychological impacts on emotions and regulation strategies, intolerance of uncertainty, and environmental satisfaction. Our approach’s originality relies on comparing one’s actual psychological functioning (i.e., since the pandemic) to one’s general psychological functioning (i.e., before the pandemic). This study also assesses the relationships between both negative and positive emotions and (1) emotion regulation strategies, (2) intolerance of uncertainty and, (3) environmental satisfaction since the pandemic and its lockdown. The total sample comprised 948 adults from the general population. Results show that, since the pandemic, individuals experience higher levels of negative emotions, lower levels of positive emotions and environmental satisfaction. They also tend to worry less and to resort to acceptance more often. Also, environmental satisfaction is the most important predictor of both negative emotions and positive ones. Overall, findings confirm previous ones and seem to indicate that environmental satisfaction should be addressed more thoroughly.
Research center :
Research Unit for a life-Course perspective on Health and Education
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Wagener, Aurélie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie de la santé
Stassart, Céline  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie de la santé
Etienne, Anne-Marie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie de la santé
Language :
English
Title :
COVID-19 and Its Lockdown in Belgium: How Limited Access to Environmental Satisfaction Impacts Emotions?
Publication date :
20 January 2022
Journal title :
Psychologica Belgica
ISSN :
0033-2879
eISSN :
2054-670X
Publisher :
Société Blege de Psychologie, Gand, Belgium
Special issue title :
Psychology and COVID-19
Volume :
62
Issue :
1
Pages :
34-46
Peer reviewed :
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