A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Amit Goldenberg
  • , M├írcia Bernardo
  • , Olatz Campos
  • , Luis Eudave
  • , Karolina Grzech
  • , Daphna Hausman Ozery
  • , Maria Antoniadi
  • , Kermeka Desai
  • , Zoi Gialitaki
  • , Elizaveta Kushnir
  • , Khaoula Nadif
  • , Olalla Ni├▒o Bravo
  • , Rafia Nauman
  • , Minja Westerlund
  • , Lina Ahlgren
  • , Sara P├Ântinen
  • , Gabriel Agboola Adetula
  • , Pinar Dursun
  • , Azuka Ikechukwu Arinze
  • , Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze
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    Abstract

    The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries and regions (n = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vesus both control conditions) consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing interventions had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION: The stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 12 May 2020. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4878591.v1. [Abstract copyright: © 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.]
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1089-1110
    JournalNature Human Behaviour
    Volume5
    Early online date2 Aug 2021
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2021

    Bibliographical note

    Note: This work was supported by Amazon Web Services Imagine Grant, the Japan Society for the promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [grant numbers JSPS KAKENHI 16h03079, 17h00875, 18k12015 and 20h04581], Ministry of Education research programme Dipartimenti di Eccellenza, University of Wroclaw, Charles University Research Programme PROGRES [grant number Q18], the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [grant number 2016:0229], the Rubicon [grant number 019.183sg.007], the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Australian Research Council [grant number: dp180102384], the US National Institutes of Health [grant numbers: NIMH111640 and RO1-CA-224545], the Huo Family Foundation, the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Division of Social and Economic Sciences [grant number: 1559511], Eesti Teadusagentuur-Estonian Research Council [grant number: PSG525], the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the HSE Basic Research Program, Dominican University, French National Research Agency Investissements d'avenir [grant number: ANR-15-IDEX-02 and ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE] and the Slovak Research and Development Agency [grant number: APVV-20-0319].

    Keywords

    • Psychology

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