Ways of coping with lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic: Positive approach to the analysis

This research is a response to topical objectives of studying adjustment abilities of human psyche in the situations of global uncertainty and potential threat to human life. The research is aimed at the insight into the ways of coping with lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic. The goal was achieved within the positive approach employed to find psychological resources that encourage successful and subjectively satisfactory solution to a difficult life situation. The research is based on the author’s psychological questionnaire with the use of quantitative scale of subjective assessment. The questionnaire helped gather information about the influence of lockdown on the psychological well-being and about the changes in human character and behavior. The study involved 306 people (246 women and 60 men) aged 18 to 67. The authors revealed that satisfaction with one’s well-being during lockdown positively correlates with the ability to see positive aspects of a situation, with learning new methods of self-regulation, with new interests, with encouraging one’s own creativity and sense of humor, with willingness to enjoy opportunity to finish things that were once postponed, with aspiration to understand oneself and other people and to experience the sense of unity with the whole world.

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Intrinsic functional connectivity of blue and red brains: neurobiological evidence of different stress resilience between political attitudes

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-020-72980-x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Taekwan Kim ◽

Ji-Won Hur ◽

Seoyeon Kwak ◽

Dayk Jang ◽

Sang-Hun Lee ◽

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Keyword(s):

Causal Reasoning ◽

Social Issues ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Resilience ◽

Uncertain Information ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Frontal Pole ◽

Brain Organization ◽

Psychological Well Being

Abstract Conservatives are more sensitive to threatening/anxious situations in perceptual and cognitive levels, experiencing emotional responses and stress, while liberals are more responsive to but tolerant of ambiguous and uncertain information. Interestingly, conservatives have greater psychological well-being and are more satisfied with their lives than liberals despite their psychological vulnerability to stress caused by threat and anxiety sensitivities. We investigated whether conservatives have greater resilience and self-regulation capacity, which are suggested to be psychological buffers that enhance psychological well-being, than liberals and moderates. We also explored associations between intrinsic functional brain organization and these psychological resources to expand our neurobiological understanding of self-regulatory processes in neuropolitics. We found that conservatives, compared to liberals and moderates, had greater psychological resilience and self-regulation capacity that were attributable to greater impulse control and causal reasoning. Stronger intrinsic connectivities between the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and precuneus and between the insula and frontal pole/OFC in conservatives were correlated with greater resilience and self-regulation capacity. These results suggest the neural underpinnings that may allow conservatives to manage the psychological stress and achieve greater life satisfaction. This study provides neuroscientific evidence for the different responses of liberals and conservatives to politically relevant social issues.

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Reflections on the Role of Control in Meditation

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808640.013.49 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Deane H. Shapiro

Keyword(s):

Belief Systems ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Western Psychology ◽

Wide Range ◽

Being There ◽

And Behavior ◽

Instrumental Control

Spiritual, religious, and secular traditions emphasize the importance of control over one’s thoughts, feelings and behavior, and the relevance of meditation in achieving this control. Meditation practices, in particular, can be understood as one strategy amongst others for achieving self-regulation. While the main focus in Western psychology has been on active instrumental control, other traditions have emphasized the importance of a more accepting/yielding mode of control. This chapter distinguishes between different forms of control and how some of these may be enhanced by meditation practices. While over-control and passive resignation can have negative consequences for a person’s well-being, there is evidence for the beneficial role of the active/assertive and positive accepting/yielding modes of control. Selecting the most appropriate meditation strategy for a particular person is dependent upon a wide range of factors, including the person’s control profile, their sensory orientation, and their belief systems. The chapter concludes with the description of the author’s personal journey in exploring meditation and theories and practices of control—and a note of gratitude.

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Complex of Methods of Imaginative Psychotherapy of the Body in Healthy Psychotechnology “RIC”: Efficiency and Features of Application

Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy ◽

10.26565/2410-1249-2019-12-04 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Assessment ◽

The Body ◽

Self Healing ◽

Emotional States ◽

Psychological Mechanisms ◽

Preparatory Stage ◽

Mental Integration ◽

The Individual

Decrease in the level of health is considered today as a social, general cultural problem. In modern Ukraine, there is an acute problem of using psychological technologies for healing, fostering a conscious attitude to one’s health, which is caused by a contradiction between the fairly high objective requirements of society for health, harmonious development of people and a rather low level of respect for one’s body and wellness culture, as well as a general deterioration health of citizens. The article is devoted to the development of health-improving psychotechnology and assessment of its effectiveness based on the study of the dynamics of verbalization of bodily and subjective assessment of health as a result of its application. A generalization of the results of a theoretical analysis of the health problem and the psychological mechanisms of its provision is presented. The use of integrative psychotechnics for recreational purposes is justified. The proposed program of wellness psychotechnology “Relaxation-Imagination-Comfort” (“RIC”) is one of the integrative psychotechnologies, based on the synthesis of methods of concentrative relaxation, imaginative psychotherapy of the body and includes a set of psychotechnics aimed at ensuring the restoration and preservation of the full functioning of the body, based on means of internalization of the Bodily locus of control, relaxation and self-regulation based on feedback from the Bodily-Self. The RIC program is based on the principle of gradual mental deepening and expansion of the practice of mental integration and involves the consistent implementation of the preparatory stage, three main (relaxation, awareness, imagination) stages and the final stage. Based on a synthesis of empirical data, it is shown that, as a result of the use of health psychotechnology (“RIC”), positive dynamics of subjective assessment of health and well-being, a decrease in the intensity of somatic complaints, harmonization of dominant psycho-emotional states, the level of verbalization of the Bodily-Self and emotional acceptance of one’s body were revealed, which characterizes the potential for self-healing and maintaining the psychosomatic balance of the individual.

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Social Support in the Structure of Personality Resources in Individuals with Disabilities

Cultural-Historical Psychology ◽

10.17759/chp.2015110311 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 120-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D.A. Leontyev ◽

A.A. Lebedeva ◽

T.A. Silantieva

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Individuals With Disabilities ◽

Distinctive Features ◽

Developmental Conditions

The paper focuses on the issues of social support of individuals with disabilities and describes its role in the development and maintenance of subjective well-being of persons in situations of disability. A special external resource for overcoming unfavorable developmental conditions, social support is interlocked in a continuous relationship with psychological resources of personality. One of its distinctive features is that it implies the subject's activity aimed at overcoming difficult life situation on his/her own. When the person's bodily resources are insufficient (as it happens in situations of physical disabilities), the role of macro- and microso¬cial resources in supporting his/her well-being naturally increases. However, when both social and bodily resources are scarce, it is the individual's personality that stands in the gap. The research described in the paper explored the relationship between microsocial resources (support of family and friends, satisfaction with this support) and psychological resources of resistance and self-regulation of personality. The sample consisted of 210 subjects (48 students with disabilities, 162 healthy subjects). The outcomes revealed certain differences between the subsamples with low and high rates of social support which suggest that the subjects' perceptions and evaluations of the support contribute to their psychological resources of coping and self-regulation, acti¬vating and/or reinforcing the existing potential of their personalities.

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Mindfulness as Self-Regulated Attention

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000080 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 135-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Jan M. Burg ◽

Oliver T. Wolf

Keyword(s):

Psychological Health ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Short Version ◽

Present Moment ◽

Physiological Level ◽

Physical And Psychological Health ◽

Positive Correlations ◽

And Behavior ◽

Regulation Of Emotion

Empirical research has demonstrated associations between heart rate variability (HRV) and the regulation of emotion and behavior. Similarly, self-regulation of attention to one’s experience of the present moment in an accepting and nonjudgmental manner is an essential characteristic of mindfulness that promotes emotional and behavioral regulation and psychological well-being. The present study investigated the relationship between mindfulness and HRV. A total of 23 undergraduate psychology students completed a recently developed measure of mindfulness, the mindful breathing exercise (MBE), which assesses the ability to mindfully stay in contact with one’s breath during breathing meditation. Moreover, indices of HRV were measured during a short version of the MBE. As predicted, positive correlations were found between indices of HRV and mindfulness. The findings demonstrate that the ability to mindfully regulate one’s attention is associated with higher HRV, a physiological correlate of physical and psychological health, and therefore support on a physiological level the potential benefit of the implemented mindfulness exercises in mindfulness-based clinical interventions.

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Influence of Ego Depletion on Individual Forgiveness in Different Interpersonal Offense Situations

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631466 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yangen Zhou ◽

Lihua Zhao ◽

Yibo Yang ◽

Xianmin Liu

Keyword(s):

Stroop Task ◽

Positive Emotion ◽

Negative Emotion ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Ego Depletion ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Consistent Effect ◽

Regulation Function ◽

And Behavior ◽

Different Levels

Forgiveness, as an important content in the field of morality, means that the offended person overcomes the negative emotion, cognition, and behavior toward the offender and replaces it with positive emotion, cognition, and behavior. Based on the theory of the limitation of psychological resources, ego depletion (ED) will lead to the weakening of self-regulation function, thus making some immoral behaviors, which is not conducive to individual forgiveness. In order to explore the influence of ED on individual forgiveness in different interpersonal offense situations, this study used the Stroop task to manipulate the level of ED and used imaginary situations to distinguish offending situations. We found that the level of forgiveness in a serious offense situation was significantly lower than that in a mild offense situation, p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.158. In different interpersonal offense situations, ED has different effects on forgiveness. In the severe offense situation, the forgiveness level of high-ED individuals was significantly lower than that of the low-ED individuals, p = 0.023, partial η2 = 0.144; in the mild offense situation, the forgiveness level of high-ED individuals was significantly higher than that of low-ED individuals, p = 0.029, partial η2 = 0.140. The results showed that different levels of ED have no consistent effect on forgiveness in different interpersonal offense situations; high ED hinders individual forgiveness in serious offense situations but can promote individual forgiveness in mild offense situations.

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Stressful situations and their overcoming.

Živaâ psihologiâ ◽

10.51233/2413-6522-2021-9-16 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 9-16

Author(s):

Anastasia Pavlova ◽

Ekaterina Redina

Keyword(s):

Defense Mechanism ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Coping Behavior ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Control ◽

The Third ◽

Body And Soul ◽

The Subject ◽

And Behavior ◽

Psychological Defenses

The aim of the work was: To determine the methods of protection and behavior of the subject in stressful situations, for their effective overcoming. The following techniques were used in the work: 1) Methodology for diagnosing psychological typologies. 2) Research of individual coping strategies. E. Heim. 3) Methodology "Coping - behavior in stressful situations". Results: According to the results of the first method, the defense mechanism - denial, prevails, and according to the third method, coping oriented towards avoidance prevails. Also, for all methods, the results about a low level of prevalence of emotions coincided. The subject does not resort to emotional defenses and behavior on rare occasions. He tries to rationally think about the situation and find a way out of it. Conclusions: The subject is expected to have a stronger understanding of his psychological defenses and self-control. Recommendations for skillfully managing your own emotions and behavior both in stressful situations and in more emotionally calm situations. You need to treat yourself, your body and soul with great respect and unconditional respect. And most importantly, love yourself. It is important to master the basics of self-regulation with the help of voluntary control of well-being and controlled harmonization of mood. Continue in the direction of comprehending the miracle of transformative creativity of conscious development. The choice in the systematic replenishment of energy always has a person who knows himself, his needs and ways to satisfy them.

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THE ABILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO SELF-REGULATE EMOTIONS AS MENTAL HEALTH SIGN

Wiadomości Lekarskie ◽

10.36740/wlek202111122 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 74 (11) ◽

pp. 2806-2811

Author(s):

Mariia S. Kanibolotska ◽

Marharita A. Dergach ◽

Neonila V. Partyko ◽

Anastasiia Cherkasova ◽

Oleg Blinov ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young People ◽

Economic Status ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Affective Component ◽

Validated Questionnaire ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Student’S T

The aim: To determine the differences in the ability of young people with low and high economic statuses towards emotional self-regulation, and characterize their frame of mind by analyzing functional and dysfunctional emotions in healthy and unhealthy states. Materials and methods: Theoretical – analysis, generalization, interpretation of the collected data; a set of empirical methods — “Attitude to health” by Berezovskaya, the scale “Quality of life” in the adaptation by Vodopyanova, self-assessment income scale and validated questionnaire “Subjective economic well-being” by Khashchenko. The author has applied Pearson’s chi-squared test, Student’s t-test, and Kruskal-Wallis test. Results: The affective component of health manifests in the predominance of happiness (t=0.3, p≤0.01) and peace (t=1.7, p≤0.1) as components of a positive frame of mind among young people with high economic status. Such emotions such as fear (t=2.1, p≤0.03), anxiety (t=2, p≤0.04) and irritability (t=1.8, at p≤0.07) are more common among young people with low economic status. Young people who have high economic status show stronger ability to emotional self-regulation in comparison to the ones with low economic status (χ² = 11.9, p≤0.001). Conclusions: In this research, we have found a statistically significant difference in the ability towards emotional self-regulation between young people with low and high economic status: the latter group is able to control dysfunctional emotions such as anger and resentment more when communicating with others; they are more likely to find internal psychological resources. When the health deteriorates, the young people with high economic status are prone to show independence, and manage their own time and life, which is a sign of stable mental health.

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