Taking control amidst the chaos: emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major global health crisis that continues to threaten public health and safety. Although the pandemic is still unfolding, measures to reduce the spread of the virus have spawned significant challenges to people's current work as well as their careers more generally. In this commentary, we discuss the implications of COVID-19 for maintaining one's psychological well-being and employment security, and also managing family and work responsibilities. We also bring forth evidence from the emotion regulation literature to help mitigate the downstream negative consequences of COVID-19 on people's work lives. Finally, we offer several suggestions for future scholarly investigation into how this pandemic impacts vocational behavior.
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Making use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in dealing with adverse situations arising out of the current context is stressful.
“Making use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in dealing with the adverse situations that arise out of the current context is indeed stressful (Restubog et al., 2020).”
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- Authors
- Restubog, S. L. D., Ocampo, A. C. G., & Wang, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Restubog, Simon Lloyd D.
- Venue
- Journal of Vocational Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-06
- Volume
- 119
- Pages
- 103440
- ISSN
- 0001-8791 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7206430
- OpenAlex
- W3022265466
- Cited by
- 419
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 107 · 2021: 124 · 2020: 32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Vocational Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, job security, work-family balance, occupational stress, vocational behavior
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