Emotion Regulation Use Varies Across Socioecological Levels of Pandemic Stress in Older Adults.

IF 2.4 3区医学 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Clinical Gerontologist Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-17 DOI:10.1080/07317115.2024.2316688

Bruna Martins-Klein, Eric E Griffith, Kristin Heideman, Irina Orlovsky, Ziyuan Chen, Elizabeth Alwan

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Abstract

Objectives: COVID-19 escalated stress within family/neighborhood (local) and national/cultural (global) levels. However, the impact of socioecological levels of stress on pandemic emotion regulation remains largely unexplored.

Methods: Thirty older adults from the Northeast US (63-92 years) reported on pandemic stress and emotion regulation in semi-structured interviews. Responses were coded into socioecological sources of local and global stress, and associated use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies from the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire was explored.

Results: Older adults experienced significant distress at global levels, and perception of lacking top-down safety governance may have exacerbated local distress of engaging in daily activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants endorsed coping with local stressors via perspective-taking, acceptance, and other adaptive strategies, while global sources of stress were associated with greater use of maladaptive strategies, including other-blame and rumination.

Conclusion: Quantitative assessments may underestimate significant older adult distress and maladaptive coping toward global stressors. Findings should be replicated with more diverse populations beyond the COVID-19 context.

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老年人在不同社会生态水平的大流行压力下使用的情绪调节方法各不相同。

目标：COVID-19 使家庭/邻里（地方）和国家/文化（全球）层面的压力升级。然而，社会生态层面的压力对大流行病情绪调节的影响在很大程度上仍未得到研究：来自美国东北部的 30 名老年人（63-92 岁）在半结构化访谈中报告了大流行压力和情绪调节情况。我们对这些回答进行了编码，将其分为本地和全球压力的社会生态来源，并探讨了认知情绪调节问卷中认知情绪调节策略的相关使用情况：结果：在全球层面上，老年人经历了严重的压力，而在 COVID-19 大流行期间，由于缺乏自上而下的安全管理，可能加剧了他们在参与日常活动时的局部压力。受试者认可通过透视、接受和其他适应性策略来应对局部压力，而全球性的压力来源则与更多地使用不良适应性策略有关，包括他者自责和反刍：结论：定量评估可能低估了老年人所面临的巨大压力和对全球压力源的适应不良反应。研究结果应在 COVID-19 范围之外的更多人群中进行验证。

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Clinical Gerontologist GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY-PSYCHIATRY

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6.20

自引率

25.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Clinical Gerontologist presents original research, reviews, and clinical comments relevant to the needs of behavioral health professionals and all practitioners who work with older adults. Published in cooperation with Psychologists in Long Term Care, the journal is designed for psychologists, physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors (family, pastoral, and vocational), and other health professionals who address behavioral health concerns found in later life, including: -adjustments to changing roles- issues related to diversity and aging- family caregiving- spirituality- cognitive and psychosocial assessment- depression, anxiety, and PTSD- Alzheimer’s disease and other neurocognitive disorders- long term care- behavioral medicine in aging- rehabilitation and education for older adults. Each issue provides insightful articles on current topics. Submissions are peer reviewed by content experts and selected for both scholarship and relevance to the practitioner to ensure that the articles are among the best in the field. Authors report original research and conceptual reviews. A unique column in Clinical Gerontologist is “Clinical Comments." This section features brief observations and specific suggestions from practitioners which avoid elaborate research designs or long reference lists. This section is a unique opportunity for you to learn about the valuable clinical work of your peers in a short, concise format.