2,075
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Regulatory emotional self-efficacy and anxiety in times of pandemic: a gender perspectiveOpen DataOpen Materials

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon show all
Article: 2158831 | Received 26 Sep 2021, Accepted 10 Dec 2022, Published online: 28 Dec 2022

References

  • Alessandri, G., Caprara, G. V., Eisenberg, N., & Steca, P. (2009). Reciprocal relations among self-efficacy beliefs and prosociality across time. Journal of Personality, 77(4), 1229–1259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00580.x
  • Alzueta, E., Perrin, P., Baker, F. C., Caffarra, S., Ramos-Usuga, D., Yuksel, D., … Arango-Lasprilla, J. C. (2021). How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives: A study of psychological correlates across 59 countries. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(3), 556–570. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23082
  • Anyan, F., & Hjemdal, O. (2018). Stress of home life and gender role socializations, family cohesion, and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Women & Health, 58(5), 548–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2017.1316343
  • Anyan, F., Hjemdal, O., Ernstsen, L., & Havnen, A. (2020). Change in physical activity during the coronavirus disease 2019 lockdown in Norway: The buffering effect of resilience on mental health. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(598481), 1–8https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.598481.
  • Ausín, B., González-Sanguino, C., Castellanos, MÁ, & Muñoz, M. (2021). Gender-related differences in the psychological impact of confinement as a consequence of COVID-19 in Spain. Journal of Gender Studies, 30(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1799768
  • Bandura, A. (1991). Social cognitive theory of self-regulation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2), 248–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90022-L
  • Bandura, A., Caprara, G. V., Barbaranelli, C., Gerbino, M., & Pastorelli, C. (2003). Role of affective self-regulatory efficacy in diverse spheres of psychosocial functioning. Child Development, 74(3), 769–782. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00567
  • Bhaskar, S., Rastogi, A., Menon, K. V., Kunheri, B., Balakrishnan, S., & Howick, J. (2020). Call for action to address equity and justice divide during COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11(559905), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.559905
  • Boden, M., Zimmerman, L., Azevedo, K. J., Ruzek, J. I., Gala, S., Abdel Magid, H. S., … McLean, C. P. (2021). Addressing the mental health impact of COVID-19 through population health. Clinical Psychology Review, 85, 102006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102006
  • Bozdağ, F. (2021). The psychological effects of staying home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Journal of General Psychology, 148(3), 226–248. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2020.1867494
  • Brebner, J. (2003). Gender and emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 34(3), 387–394. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00059-4
  • Campbell-Sills, L., & Stein, M. B. (2007). Psychometric analysis and refinement of the connor–davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC): Validation of a 10-item measure of resilience. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20(6), 1019–1028. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20271
  • Cannuscio, C. C., Jones, C., Kawachi, I., Colditz, G. A., Berkman, L., & Rimm, E. (2002). Reverberations of family illness: A longitudinal assessment of informal caregiving and mental health status in the nurses’ health study. American Journal of Public Health, 92(8), 1305–1311. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.92.8.1305
  • Caprara, G. V., Alessandri, G., Barbaranelli, C., & Vecchione, M. (2013). The longitudinal relations between self-esteem and affective self-regulatory efficacy. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(6), 859–870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.011
  • Caprara, G. V., Alessandri, G., Eisenberg, N., Kupfer, A., Steca, P., Caprara, M. G., … Abela, J. (2012). The positivity scale. Psychological Assessment, 24(3), 701–712. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026681
  • Caprara, G. V., Caprara, M., & Steca, P. (2003). Personality’s correlates of adult development and aging. European Psychologist, 8(3), 131–147. https://doi.org/10.1027//1016-9040.8.3.131
  • Caprara, G. V., di Giunta, L., Eisenberg, N., Gerbino, M., Pastorelli, C., & Tramontano, C. (2008). Assessing regulatory emotional self-efficacy in three countries. Psychological Assessment, 20(3), 227–237. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.20.3.227
  • Caprara, G. V., & Steca, P. (2007). Prosocial agency: The contribution of values and self–efficacy beliefs to prosocial behavior across ages. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26(2), 218–239. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2007.26.2.218
  • Cárdaba-García, R. M., Pérez Pérez, L., Niño Martín, V., Cárdaba-García, I., Durantez-Fernández, C., & Olea, E. (2021). Evaluation of the risk of anxiety and/or depression during confinement due to COVID-19 in central Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5732. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115732
  • Chen, L., Zhao, H., Razin, D., Song, T., Wu, Y., Ma, X., … Yan, L. (2021). Anxiety levels during a second local COVID-19 pandemic breakout among quarantined people: A cross sectional survey in China. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 135, 37–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.067
  • Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres, & Organización de los Estados Americanos. (2020). COVID-19 en la vida de las mujeres. Razones para reconocer los impactos diferenciados. Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres.
  • Cuadrado, E., Arenas, A., Moyano, M., & Tabernero, C. (2022). Differential impact of stay-at-home orders on mental health in adults who are homeschooling or “childless at home” in time of COVID-19. Family Process, famp.61. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12698
  • del Río-Casanova, L., Sánchez-Martín, M., García-Dantas, A., González-Vázquez, A., & Justo, A. (2021). Psychological responses according to gender during the early stage of COVID-19 in Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(7), 3731. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073731
  • Dou, K., Wang, Y.-J., Bin, J. L., & Liu, Y.-Z. (2016). Core self-evaluation, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and depressive symptoms: Testing Two mediation models. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 44(3), 391–399. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2016.44.3.391
  • Dowrick, C., Kokanovic, R., Hegarty, K., Griffiths, F., & Gunn, J. (2008). Resilience and depression: perspectives from primary care. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 12(4), 439–452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308094419
  • Edward, K. (2005). Resilience: A protector from depression. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 11(4), 241–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390305281177
  • Eisenberg, N., Martin, C. L., & Fabes, R. A. (1996). Gender development and gender differences. In D. C. Berliner, & R. C. Calfee (Eds.), The handbook of educational psychology (pp. 358–396). Macmillan.
  • Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., Goldsmith, H. H., & van Hulle, C. A. (2006). Gender differences in temperament: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(1), 33–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.1.33
  • Essangri, H., Sabir, M., Benkabbou, A., Majbar, M. A., Amrani, L., Ghannam, A., … Souadka, A. (2021). Predictive factors for impaired mental health among medical students during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104(1), 95–102. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1302
  • Fenollar-Cortés, J., Jiménez, Ó, Ruiz-García, A., & Resurrección, D. M. (2021). Gender differences in psychological impact of the confinement during the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(682860), 1–11https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682860.
  • Gamonal-Limcaoco, S., Montero-Mateos, E., Lozano-López, M. T., Maciá-Casas, A., Matías-Fernández, J., & Roncero, C. (2022). Perceived stress in different countries at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 57(4), 309–322https://doi.org/10.1177/00912174211033710.
  • Given, L. M. (2008). Convenience sample. In L. M. Given (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of qualitative research methods (pp. 123–124). SAGE Publications, Inc.
  • González-Sanguino, C., Ausín, B., Castellanos, M. A., Saiz, J., & Muñoz, M. (2021). Mental health consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain. A longitudinal study of the alarm situation and return to the new normality. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 107, 110219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110219
  • Goodman, L. A. (1961). Snowball sampling. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 32(1), 148–170. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177705148
  • Griffin, J. M., Fuhrer, R., Stansfeld, S. A., & Marmot, M. (2002). The importance of low control at work and home on depression and anxiety: do these effects vary by gender and social class? Social Science & Medicine, 54(5), 783–798. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00109-5
  • Hawes, M. T., Szenczy, A. K., Klein, D. N., Hajcak, G., & Nelson, B. D. (2022). Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Medicine, 3222–3230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720005358
  • Herrero, M. J., Blanch, J., Peri, J. M., de Pablo, J., Pintor, L., & Bulbena, A. (2003). A validation study of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) in a Spanish population. General Hospital Psychiatry, 25(4), 277–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-8343(03)00043-4
  • Jayme, M., & Sau, V. (1996). Psicología diferencial del sexo y el género: fundamentos ((Vol. 92), Ed.; Icaria Edi). Icaria Editorial.
  • Kumar, A., & Nayar, K. R. (2021). COVID 19 and its mental health consequences. Journal of Mental Health, 30(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2020.1757052
  • Laird, K. T., Krause, B., Funes, C., & Lavretsky, H. (2019). Psychobiological factors of resilience and depression in late life. Translational Psychiatry, 9(1), 88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0424-7
  • Luque, B., Castillo-Mayén, R., Cuadrado, E., Gutiérrez-Domingo, T., Rubio, S. J., Arenas, A., … Tabernero, C. (2020). The role of emotional regulation and affective balance on health perception in cardiovascular disease patients according to Sex differences. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(10), 3165. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103165
  • Masten, A. S. (2011). Resilience in children threatened by extreme adversity: Frameworks for research, practice, and translational synergy. Development and Psychopathology, 23(2), 493–506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579411000198
  • Odriozola-González, P., Planchuelo-Gómez, Á, Irurtia, M. J., & de Luis-García, R. (2022). Psychological symptoms of the outbreak of the COVID-19 confinement in Spain. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(4), 825–835. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320967086
  • Osimo, S. A., Aiello, M., Gentili, C., Ionta, S., & Cecchetto, C. (2021). The influence of personality, resilience, and alexithymia on mental health during COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(630751), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.630751
  • Ozamiz-Etxebarria, N., Idoiaga Mondragon, N., Dosil Santamaría, M., & Picaza Gorrotxategi, M. (2020). Psychological symptoms during the two stages of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak: An investigation in a sample of citizens in northern Spain. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(1491), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01491
  • Panayiotou, G., Panteli, M., & Leonidou, C. (2021). Coping with the invisible enemy: The role of emotion regulation and awareness in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 19, 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.11.002
  • Papandreou, C., Arija, V., Aretouli, E., Tsilidis, K. K., & Bulló, M. (2020). Comparing eating behaviours, and symptoms of depression and anxiety between Spain and Greece during the COVID-19 outbreak: Cross-sectional analysis of two different confinement strategies. European Eating Disorders Review, 28(6), 836–846. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2772
  • Pieh, C., Budimir, S., Humer, E., & Probst, T. (2021). Comparing mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown and 6 months after the lockdown in Austria: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12(625973), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625973
  • Pierce, M., McManus, S., Hope, H., Hotopf, M., Ford, T., Hatch, S. L., … Abel, K. M. (2021). Mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(7), 610–619. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00151-6
  • Planchuelo-Gómez, Á, Odriozola-González, P., Irurtia, M. J., & de Luis-García, R. (2020). Longitudinal evaluation of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Spain. Journal of Affective Disorders, 277, 842–849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.09.018
  • Ran, L., Wang, W., Ai, M., Kong, Y., Chen, J., & Kuang, L. (2020). Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID-19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic. Social Science & Medicine, 262, 113261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113261
  • Riaz, M., Abid, M., & Bano, Z. (2021). Psychological problems in general population during COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: Role of cognitive emotion regulation. Annals of Medicine, 53(1), 189–196. https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2020.1853216
  • Ripoll, J., Contreras-Martos, S., Esteva, M., Soler, A., & Serrano-Ripoll, M. J. (2021). Mental health and psychological wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study in the balearic islands (Spain). Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(14), 3191. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10143191
  • Salfi, F., Lauriola, M., Amicucci, G., Corigliano, D., Viselli, L., Tempesta, D., … Ferrara, M. (2020). Gender-related time course of sleep disturbances and psychological symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on the Italian population. Neurobiology of Stress, 13, 100259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100259
  • Serrano-Parra, M. D., Garrido-Abejar, M., Notario-Pacheco, B., Bartolomé-Gutiérrez, R., Solera-Martínez, M., & Martínez-Vizcaíno, V. (2013). Validez de la escala de resiliencia de Connor-Davidson(10 ítems) en una población de mayores no institucionalizados. Enfermería Clínica, 23(1), 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enfcli.2012.11.006
  • Sui, W., Gong, X., & Zhuang, Y. (2021). The mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(3), 759–771. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12830
  • Tabernero, C., Caprara, G. V., Gutiérrez-Domingo, T., Cuadrado, E., Castillo-Mayén, R., Arenas, A., … Luque, B. (2021). Positivity and self-efficacy beliefs explaining health-related quality of life in cardiovascular patients. Psicothema, 3(3), 433–441. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2020.476
  • Taroyan, N. A., Butnicu, B., Ypsilanti, A., & Overton, P. G. (2020). Individual differences in performance speed are associated with a positivity/negativity bias. An ERP and behavioral study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(7), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00007
  • Thomas, C., & Zolkoski, S. (2020). Preventing stress among undergraduate learners: The importance of emotional intelligence, resilience, and emotion regulation. Frontiers in Education, 5(94), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00094
  • Tyra, A. T., Griffin, S. M., Fergus, T. A., & Ginty, A. T. (2021). Individual differences in emotion regulation prospectively predict early COVID-19 related acute stress. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 81, 102411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102411
  • Valls-Llobet, C., Solsona, J. O., Carrillo, M. L., & Pujol, M. F. (2007). Manifestación y medicalización del malestar en las mujeres. Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Programa de Formación de Formadores/as en Perspectiva de Género en Salud. https://www.mscbs.gob.es/organizacion/sns/planCalidadSNS/pdf/equidad/05modulo_04.pdf.
  • World Health Organization. (2001). Declaration of Helsinki. World medical association declaration of Helsinki. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(4), 1–2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566407/
  • World Health Organization. (2020a). Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/mental-health-considerations.pdf.
  • World Health Organization. (2020b). Gender and COVID-19. Advocacy brief. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Advocacy_brief-Gender-2020.1.
  • Yıldırım, M., & Güler, A. (2021). Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110347
  • Yuan, G., Xu, W., Liu, Z., Liu, C., Li, W., & An, Y. (2018). Dispositional mindfulness, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and academic burnout in Chinese adolescents following a tornado: The role of mediation through regulatory emotional self-efficacy. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 27(5), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2018.1433258
  • Zhang, Y., Zhang, H., Ma, X., & Di, Q. (2020). Mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemics and the mitigation effects of exercise: A longitudinal study of college students in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(10), 3722. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103722
  • Zunzunegui, M. v., Béland, F., Llácer, A., & León, V. (1998). Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Spanish elderly. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 33(5), 195–205.