Development and initial testing of an online security prime writing intervention during COVID-19.

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2025.2542298

Angie S LeRoy, Andreas Weyland, Jade Kanemitsu, Arya Tsay-Jones, Vincent D Lai, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Nyla Vela, Amanda Perozo, Valentina I Maza, Sierra Wickline, Katherine Beach, Robert Suchting

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Abstract

Background and objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, we tested the efficacy of a one-week online security prime (SP) writing intervention in reducing distress among 254 adults (60+ years and/or having an underlying health condition). The efficacy of writing interventions can depend on several factors. Attachment orientations, characterized by dimensions of anxiety and avoidance, reflect individuals' tendencies in how they seek proximity to and rely on others for support, and influence how people experience and regulate their emotions.

Design and methods: Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Security Priming (SP), where people wrote about what made them feel safe and secure, Self-regulation (SR), where people wrote about their pandemic-related stressors, coping, and lifestyle changes, or a Control group (C); they also completed pre- and post-intervention measures.

Results: Our hypothesis that the SP condition would outperform the SR and C conditions in reducing distress, was not supported. In the SP condition, attachment avoidance demonstrated a negative relationship with distress at follow-up, unlike the other two conditions. Further, those in the SP condition demonstrated a negative relationship between attachment anxiety and distress at follow-up.

Conclusions: The SP writing intervention was impactful for those insecurely attached and may have utility in other loss-related contexts beyond COVID-19.

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COVID-19期间在线安全主编写干预措施的开发和初步测试。

背景和目的：在COVID-19大流行期间，我们测试了为期一周的在线安全prime （SP）写作干预在减少254名成年人（60岁以上和/或有潜在健康问题）的痛苦方面的效果。写作干预的效果取决于几个因素。依恋取向以焦虑和回避维度为特征，反映了个体如何寻求接近他人和依赖他人支持的倾向，并影响人们如何体验和调节自己的情绪。设计和方法：参与者被随机分配到三种情况中的一种：安全启动（SP），人们写下让他们感到安全的事情，自我调节（SR），人们写下与流行病相关的压力源，应对和生活方式的改变，或者对照组(C)；他们还完成了干预前和干预后的措施。结果：我们的假设，即SP条件会比SR和C条件减少痛苦，不支持。与其他两种情况不同，在SP条件下，依恋回避与随访时的痛苦呈负相关。此外，SP组在随访中表现出依恋焦虑与痛苦之间的负相关关系。结论：SP书写干预对不安全依恋者有影响，可能在COVID-19以外的其他与损失相关的情况下也有用。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.