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COVID-19 and Its Lockdown in Belgium: How Limited Access to Environmental Satisfaction Impacts Emotions?

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Wagener, Aurélie, Stassart, Céline, Etienne, Anne-Marie·2022·Psychologica Belgica
DOI 10.5334/pb.1082PMC PMC8782079
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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.

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  • Delivering an intervention early enough could reduce mental health burden in Millennials.

    “Indeed, as suggested by Wagener, Stassart, and Etienne (2022) [8], delivering an intervention early enough could reduce mental health burden in Millennials.”

    From At the Peak of the Second Wave of COVID-19, Did Millennials Show Different Emotional Responses from Older Adults? (2022) · cites this paper as [8]

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with decreases in positive emotions and quality of life and increases in negative emotions, anxiety, fear, stress, depression, and sleep disturbances.

    “mental health has been characterized by decreases in positive emotions and quality of life [5,6,7,8] as well as increases in negative emotions, anxiety, fear, stress, depression, and sleep disturbances [8,9,10,11,12,13,14].”

    From At the Peak of the Second Wave of COVID-19, Did Millennials Show Different Emotional Responses from Older Adults? (2022) · cites this paper as [8]

  • During the first wave of COVID-19, environmental satisfaction was the most predictive variable of both positive and negative emotions.

    “they showed that environmental satisfaction was the most predictive variable of both positive and negative emotions during the first wave of COVID-19 [8].”

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  • Intolerance of uncertainty is a significant predictor of anxiety and depression and, more generally, of negative emotions in the context of the pandemic.

    “intolerance to uncertainty is a significant predictor of anxiety and depression [15,16] and, more generally, of negative emotions [8].”

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  1. [21]Gosselin, P., Dugas, M., Ladouceur, R., & Freeston, M. (2001). Évaluation des inquiétudes: validation d’une traduction française du Penn State Worry Questionnaire. L’Encéphale, XXVII(5), 475– 484. 11760697

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Authors
Wagener, A., Stassart, C., & Etienne, A.-M.
Affiliations
University of Liège (BE)
Corresponding author
Wagener, Aurélie
ORCID
Venue
Psychologica Belgica
Publisher
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Published
2022
Volume
62
Issue
1
Pages
34-46
ISSN
  • 0033-2879 (ISSN-L)
  • 2054-670X
DOI
10.5334/pb.1082
PMC
PMC8782079
OpenAlex
W4206191309
Cited by
7
References
51
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3
FWCI
1.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Psychologica Belgica (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Psychologica Belgica (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › COVID-19 impact on air quality
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown, environmental satisfaction, emotion regulation, intolerance of uncertainty, negative emotions, positive emotions, acceptance, worry, psychological impact of pandemic

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