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The current study aimed to examine the extent to which the relationship between state anxiety and psychological well-being was moderated by emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) during the COVID-19 outbreak. The data set included 520 participants from Turkish university students (282 females, 238 males) aged 18 to 25 (Mage = 21,04 years, SD = 1,59). The study was conducted utilizing a web-based cross-sectional research design. The self-reported questionnaires were administered to the participants via Google Forms with a socio-demographic information sheet. The snowball sampling strategy was employed. The findings showed significant relationships among state anxiety, emotion regulation strategies, and psychological well-being. More importantly, emotion regulation strategies moderated the relationship between state anxiety and psychological well-being. The negative relationship between state anxiety and psychological well-being appeared to increase if individuals utilized low levels of cognitive reappraisal and high levels of expressive suppression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The current study, seeks to determine how loneliness and the different cognitive emotion regulation strategies contribute to psychological well-being of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines whether cognitive emotion regulation explains well-being beyond loneliness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Introduction: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) aims to decrease emotional dysregulation, particularly through psychoeducation groups targeting skills learning. In March 2020, the confinement due to COVID-19 abruptly interrupted these groups. We continued skills training through YouTube videos. Our objective is to evaluate the feasibility of this format during the confinement. Method(s): All the participants in the DBT skills group carried out in Strasbourg were included (n = 37). The psychoeducational videos were published biweekly during the confinement on the YouTube channel "GREMO HUS". Participants were encouraged to view these videos by calls/messages. One month after the end of the confinement, an online questionnaire assessed satisfaction. Result(s): In total, 92% of patients responded. Of the 34 respondents, 28 (82%) had watched at least one video, and 32% had watched more than 6 videos. A very large majority of users were satisfied with the videos. Seventy-nine percent said they were very helpful in understanding the skills, and 77% thought they had used the DBT skills more frequently. All but one said that the skills helped them to overcome difficulties in times of confinement. Discussion(s): Our study is the first to interview patients directly regarding DBT YouTube videos. These videos were considered relevant by participants during the confinement period. Their use could compliment DBT skills training groups, and serve as a training support for therapists.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS
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Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals experience high levels of minority stress, as well as a high prevalence of suicidality and self-harm. The current study investigates if emotion regulation mediates the relationships of minority stressors with self-harm and suicidality. TGD adult primary care patients (N = 115) completed a survey including measures of minority stressors, emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidality. Emotion regulation mediated the relationship between victimisation and suicidality. Emotion regulation did not mediate the relationship between victimisation and self-harm. TGD individuals' suicide risk may be increased when they experience victimisation through increased emotion dysregulation.
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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of COVID-19 on youth's social emotional competencies. Specifically, this study examined whether there was a significant difference in social emotional competency proficiency levels of self-management, social awareness, and emotion regulation as measured by the Panorama SEL Survey from October 2019 to October 2021 in fifth through twelfth grade students who attended a large, diverse suburban school district in Illinois. This study showed statistically significant differences in students' proficiency levels, which increased for self-management and decreased for social awareness and emotion regulation. Based on these results, school district leaders should consider investing funds to increase interventions and strategies for students regarding social awareness and emotion regulation. Future research should consider analyzing mindfulness interventions implemented as well as the different demographic subgroups with pre-pandemic and during-pandemic data. An extension study with additional years from the same cohort may also provide meaningful insights to school district leaders. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This study aims to examine the relationship between emotional regulations, stress, and job security concern towards and self-efficacy among academic leaders in Amman Arab University. The presented sample for analysis included 30 questionnaires distributed among academic leaders. The study instrument is a questionnaire that consists of four parts: demographic information, emotional regulations' items, stress items, job security concern items, and self-efficacy items. The study found that emotional regulations and stress as main study factors significantly impact on self-efficacy;while it is found that job security concern has no significant relationship with self-efficacy. In addition, it is also found that the following dimension of emotional regulation (rumination) significantly affects self-efficacy. On other hand, it is found that self-blame, receptivity, and re-evaluation have no significant impact on self-efficacy. This study provides further insights for organizations on how to adapt such factors to fit different national and cultural contexts. Further studies are recommended to investigate the effect of these factors on context with looking at the effect of unexpected event such as COVID 19. © 2023 Otjivanda Presse.Essen. All rights reserved.
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Instruments: OASIS, ODSIS, QLI-Sp, COP, PANAS, RRS, COREOM, BEAQ, NEO FFI, ad hoc sociodemographic data sheet, Satisfaction Scale and Treatment Assessment Survey. The results of the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) showed a statistically significant reduction (p < .05) in psychological distress: CORE OM Problem (t = 2.345;p < .037), CORE OM Functioning (Z = -1.968;p < .049), CORE OM Visi (Z = -2.028;p < .043) and CORE OM VISI-R (Z = -2.040;p < .041). After the intervention, there was a quantitative increase in quality of life, optimism and positive affection;and a reduction in anxiety, negative affection, rumiative behavior, avoidant behavior and psychological discomfort. The preliminary results obtained justify the design of a randomized controlled trial to show the efficacy of the Unified Protocol in this context and population.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a world health crisis, but also an ordeal for people's mental health and psychological well-being. The period of the COVID-19 lockdown has changed everyday life and increased anxiety, fears, and stress from habitual activities such as meetings, shopping, and the use of public transport. As the worry and nervousness increase, they threaten the cognitive (Life-satisfaction) and emotional (Happiness) components of well-being. Emotional regulation strategies are a mechanism to cope with the threat. Objective. This study assessed the impact of anxiety, perceived stress from COVID-19, and emotional regulation strategies on well-being during the first weeks of the lockdown in Russia. Design. Questionnaire-based surveys were conducted online from March 31 to April 30, 2020. A total of 589 participants (18 to 73 years of age) were recruited. The Subjective Happiness Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Zung's Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and Perceived Source of Stress from COVID-19 scales were used. Results. Among the various sources of stress, only that from restrictions on everyday life impacted well-being. High anxiety, but not perceived stress, decreased the feelings of Happiness and Life-satisfaction. Additionally, emotional regulation strategies played different roles in their impact on well-being: Cognitive reappraisal lowered negative emotions, but emotional suppression increased dissatisfaction with life. Conclusion. These findings suggest that people's effective and relevant regulation of their emotions during public health emergencies and ability to avoid losses caused by crisis events, have become urgent needs, requiring the development of psychological interventions to support well-being. © 2023, Psychology in Russia: State of the Art. All Rights Reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the prevalence of anxiety disorders, making it a population health concern in the United States and worldwide. The growing need for effective prevention and treatment of anxiety coincides with a deficit of mental health providers and physicians. With the healthcare system currently overwhelmed and the slow training pipeline of new providers, the gap between patient demand and treatment providers will not be closed in the next decade. There is a growing need for evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders that can increase access to care while addressing the underlying mechanisms of anxiety. Digital therapeutics is a fast-developing field that can be one such solutions provided in ?one-to-many? format. It can be used in conjunction with individual therapy, as well as independently, depending on the severity of patients? symptoms. This quantitative dissertation study aimed to investigate the mechanism of reducing anxiety in the digital application (app) Unwinding Anxiety Program and its impact on emotion regulation, self-representation (self-esteem), and the degree of attachment security in adults. The study used a single-case experimental design to assess the effect size of the intervention in these domains. Five study participants completed the program. The results of the study demonstrated the efficacy of the intervention for reducing anxiety among participants with medium to large effect size and decrease of attachment-related anxiety for all participants with small effect size. All study participants demonstrated improved emotion regulation with moderate effect size for the sample. Self-esteem scores improved for some participants, while decreased for others. These findings support the existing evidence for the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety demonstrating the key role of emotion regulation in the mechanism of change. This study brings the novelty of examining the impact of digital therapeutic intervention on attachment security. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The spread of Coronavirus seems to be an important challenge for health care systems in Iran. Cognitive emotion regulation and distress tolerance are thought to be the variables that can have a significant impact on mental health and quality of life in the elderly during the outbreak of coronavirus. Consequently, this study aimed to investigate the mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and Corona disease anxiety (CDA) in the elderly. The research method was correlational, of path analysis type. The statistical population included all the elderly living in Sanandaj, Iran in 2021, among whom 300 were selected using convenience sampling method. Data were collected using Alipour et al.'s CDA Scale, Garnefski & Kraaij's Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and Simons & Gaher's Distress Tolerance Questionnaire, and were analyzed using Pearson's correlation method and path analysis in Amos software. The results demonstrated that the model fits the research data. According to the results, the path of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies to CDA was mediated by distress tolerance (beta = -0.17, P < 0.05) and the path of negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies to CDA was mediated by distress tolerance (beta = 0.25, P < 0.01) significantly. According to the results of the current research, it can be said that targeting the three components of positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation as well as distress tolerance in relation to treatments and psychological services can be effective for the elderly during the spread of coronavirus. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Introduction: Anxiety is one of the most common psychological problems in children, with an increasing trend during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and cognitive emotion-regulation strategies in the relationship between stress and anxiety symptoms of children and early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We conducted the study with 234 elementary school students (128 females) aged 11 to 15 years. The students completed the COVID-19 Stress Scale, Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children, and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. To determine whether stress affects anxiety symptoms both directly and indirectly through intolerance of uncertainty and cognitive emotion-regulation strategies, we performed a mediation analysis with gender as a covariate. Results: Our results confirmed cognitive emotion regulation and intolerance of uncertainty as important cognitive vulnerability factors for anxiety in children and adolescents. A stressful experience contributes directly to anxiety and indirectly through higher intolerance of uncertainty and less adaptive strategies. The results serve to further improve prevention and intervention programs for children and adolescents which focus on correcting maladaptive cognitive emotion-regulation strategies and increasing tolerance of uncertainty. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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PurposeGiven the increasing intensity of highly competitive markets, this study aims to evaluate the effect of salespeople's emotional regulation, adaptive selling and customer-oriented behavior on sales performance.Design/methodology/approachA research model was tested by using a sample of 288 respondents from the logistics industry in Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between emotional regulation, adaptive selling, job resourcefulness, customer-oriented behavior and sales performance.FindingsThe results indicate that emotional regulation, adaptive selling and job resourcefulness can improve customer-oriented behavior, and that customer-oriented behavior and job resourcefulness can enhance sales performance. By highlighting the role of job resourcefulness, the authors find a positive moderating effect among these four dimensions.Originality/valueThe findings can help salespeople integrate customer-oriented behaviors into strategic changes to regulate their own emotions and those of others to productively address and resolve difficult business conditions. The theoretical and managerial implications of this work's contributions to international logistics are also discussed.
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COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns have had major negative effects on individuals' mental health and psychological well-being. Isolated at home, people may engage in recreational activities such as binge-watching (i.e., viewing multiple episodes of a TV series in 1 session) as a strategy to regulate emotional states. This is the first longitudinal study assessing changes in TV series viewing patterns during the first COVID-19 lockdown and examining whether binge-watching was associated with changes in positive and negative affect throughout this period. TV series viewing practices and motivations, binge-watching behaviors, psychopathological symptoms, and affective states were jointly assessed through a 6-week longitudinal online survey at 3 time points (i.e., T1, T2, and T3), in Belgium, France, and Switzerland. Results showed significant increases in individuals' watching habits (e.g., higher daily time spent viewing, expansion of coviewing practices). Results from the longitudinal analyses principally showed that male gender and social motives for TV series watching predicted a decrease in negative affect levels. A problematic binge-watching pattern characterized by loss of control was the single predictor of an increase in negative affect over time. These findings suggest that TV series watching patterns effectively increased during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Watching TV series for social motives emerged as a protective factor, whereas problematic binge-watching seemed to act as a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy throughout these unprecedented circumstances. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement This is the first large-scale longitudinal study specifically designed to explore the impact of TV series viewing practices on individuals' affective states during the first COVID-19 lockdown. TV series consumption patterns significantly increased over this period. Problematic binge-watching characterized by loss of control seemed to act as a maladaptive strategy to regulate emotional states, whereas watching TV series for social motives emerged as a protective factor in the lockdown context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented situation, whereby essential services within child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) were suspended. This created a need to modify regular methods of treatment at a rapid pace, to avoid cessation of clinical intervention and prevent potential regression in mental health. Eighteen children with moderate-to-severe mental health disorders and their parents were attending weekly group cognitive behaviour therapy-based sessions ('The Secret Agent Society' programme) when the Irish Department of Health suspended face-to-face intervention. This report describes how the group sessions were adapted to individualised, online therapeutic triads between each child, his/her parent and their clinician. Whilst internet technology has emerged as a promising solution to shortfalls in therapy services, in-depth exploration is needed to confirm the efficacy of telehealth for children attending CAMHS.
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Introduction: The emerging adult stage of life is a time of many positive changes, as well as stress and uncertainty. Certain psychological characteristics - such as emotional regulation, attachment style, or assertiveness – could help these adults thrive and maintain positive mental health. This study aimed to explore the influence of these variables on the well-being of emerging adults. Methods: The sample included 360 French emerging adults, with a mean age of 21.3 years. Well-being was assessed with the Mental Health Continuum, emotional regulation with the Emotional Regulation Difficulties Scale, assertiveness with the Assertiveness Scale, and attachment styles with the Relationship Scales Questionnaire. Results: Results showed that judgment toward one's own emotional experience and shyness (as part of assertiveness) predicted emerging adults' well-being. This study also highlighted the role of substance use and experiences of violence on emerging adults' emotional regulation and well-being. Discussion: Results support the importance of in-person and distance education and prevention to support emerging adults' well-being, especially in higher education institutions and in times of the COVID pandemic. Copyright © 2023 Plantade-Gipch, Bruno, Strub, Bouvard and Martin-Krumm.
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Increasing positive health behaviors as well as limiting negative health behaviors is critical for maintaining physical and mental health. Two self-regulatory facets, executive functions (EF) and emotion regulation/coping (emotional self-regulation;ESR), are both theorized to be related to health outcomes, such that strengths in these skills are related to better or enhanced physical and mental health, whereas weaknesses are associated with poor health outcomes. Thus, gaining a better understanding of these constructs may provide insight into opportunities to alter health behaviors. The present study aimed to explore the relationships among EF, ESR, and health behaviors. A sample of 114 college students completed EF performance-based tasks and self-report questionnaires related to their emotional self-regulation strategy use, physical activity, sleep, COVID-related stress, anxiety, and depression. An exploratory factor analysis revealed ten ESR factors, seven of which were used in regression analyses and four were used in path analyses. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated EFs did not significantly predict health behaviors, although expressive support seeking predicted physical activity and positive focus predicted sleep quality. Path analyses revealed that the indirect effects of EF on health behavior through ESR were not significant. Across all analyses, COVID-19 variables significantly predicted health behaviors. Interpretations of the current results were presented, and future directions were suggested. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of premenstrual dysphoric disorder in Iranian women, its relationship with difficulty in emotional regulation as well as women's attitudes toward menstruation and the change in the severity of premenstrual dysphoric disorder and difficulty in emotion regulation during Covid 19 pandemic. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population was Iranian women of menstrual age in 2021, from which 287 people were selected. The research tools were demographic information form, difficulty in emotion regulation scale and premenstrual symptoms screening tool. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder were found to be higher than premenstrual syndrome, and most women considered menstruation to be normal for normal health. Symptoms were also unchanged during the Covid 19 Pandemic in most women. The highest frequency of severe premenstrual symptoms was related to fatigue/ lack of energy and the lowest frequency was related to insomnia. Based on regression analysis, difficulty in emotion regulation explained 16% of the changes in premenstrual symptoms and dimensions of difficulties engaging in goal-directed behaviors and lack of emotional clarity together explained 18% of the changes. Therefore, considering the predictive role of emotion regulation, designing interventions to regulate women's emotion may be able to reduce premenstrual symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Emotions and stress experienced in the academic environment are known to be related to important outcomes such as health and well-being together with other comorbidities such as decreased academic performance, increased college dropouts, and increase of problematic online and offline behaviors. Today, the situation appears even more critical in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on positive technology framework, this study aims to promote well-being in university students who are facing the challenging period of graduation by increasing their ability to emotionally regulate. Emotion regulation is defined as the initiation, maintenance, and modification of the occurrence, intensity, and duration of feeling states. Forty-two university students voluntarily participated in a self-administered modular intervention of 6 sessions spread over three weeks that involves virtual scenarios (used in 2D). Students were randomly allocated to an experimental group and to a waiting list group that started the intervention after 3 weeks. The virtual scenarios consisted of narrative metaphors aimed at encouraging students to be aware of their emotions, and positive resources to cope with difficult situations and develop strategies to regulate their affective states. Before and after the six sessions, participants completed an assessment by filling in online questionnaires. The results showed a significant increase both in emotional well-being and psychological well-being in the experimental group compared to the waiting list group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This study examines the relationship between posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth, while assessing the moderating role of resilience, emotion regulation and social support. The authors expected that high-level distress would be associated with posttraumatic growth in healthcare workers with high resilience, high emotion regulation skills and high social support. To test this hypothesis, between 15 and 30 May, 2020, they collected data from healthcare workers (HCWs) working in worst-hit regions of central-northern Italy using an online questionnaire spread through a snowball sampling procedure. To investigate the relationship between PTSD and PTG under the influence of resilience, emotion regulation and social support, the authors performed a series of moderation analysis with 10 000 accelerated bootstrap sampling and bias-corrected confidence intervals, controlling for gender. The moderating role of resilience was significant as indicated by the model and the PTSD by resilience interaction. The same analysis performed with emotion regulation yielded a significant model for cognitive reappraisal as confirmed by the PTSD by cognitive reappraisal interaction. Finally, the moderating role of social support was significant as indicated by the interaction with PTSD. The current findings bridge the currently dichotomous narrative on HCW psychological wellbeing by showing that pandemic-related distress and growth are connected in a complex relationship that depends on intra and inter-personal factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The aim of current study is to find the predictors of depression and anxiety during the Coronavirus outbreak. 563 people participated in the study, 353 (62.7%) of them were women and 210 (37.3%) were men. The average age of the participants is 35.64. Depression, anxiety, healthy life awareness, perceived social support, emotion regulation and some demographic characteristics of participants were measured. According to the results, the predictors of depression are gender, age, presence of a risky group at home, anxiety about infection, opinion about finding a solution to the outbreak, cognitive reappraisal and perceived social support. The predictors of anxiety are age, opinion about finding a solution to the outbreak, cognitive reappraisal and social support. According to the stepwise regression results, depression is predicted the most by perceived social support. Anxiety is predicted most by cognitive reappraisal. Being a woman, being young, low social support perception and cognitive reappraisal pose a risk for depression during coronavirus. For anxiety in the Coronavirus pandemic process, being young, not thinking for the solution to Covid-19, low level cognitive reappraisal strategy and low social support perception are among the risk factors. It is important to increase the availability of online psychological programs for certain vulnerable groups like women or young people. In addition, psycho-educational programs can be created in which the cognitive reappraisal strategy can be explain so that individuals are less affected by disasters such as epidemics and earthquakes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Turkish) Mevcut calismanin amaci, Koronavirus salgini surecinde bireylerin depresyon ve kaygi duzeylerinin yordayicilarini tespit etmektir. Calismaya 563 kisi katilmis olup bu kisilerin 353'u (%62.7) kadin ve 210'u (%37.3) erkektir. Katilimcilarin yas ortalamasi 35.64'tur. Katilimcilarin depresyonu, kaygi duzeyi, saglikli yasam farkindaligi, algilanan sosyal destek, duygu duzenleme ozellikleri ve bazi demografik verileri olculmustur. Arastirmanin sonuclarina gore depresyonun yordayicilari cinsiyet, yas, evde riskli gruptan birinin bulunmasi, virusun bulasma endisesi, salgina cozum bulunacagina dair dusunce, bilissel yeniden degerlendirme ve algilanan sosyal destektir. Kayginin yordayicilari ise yas, salgina cozum bulunacagina dair dusunce, bilissel yeniden degerlendirme ve algilanan sosyal destektir. Asamali regresyon sonuclarina gore ise depresyonu en cok algilanan sosyal destek yordarken kaygiyi ise en cok bilissel yeniden degerlendirme yordamistir. Kadin olmak, genc olmak, dusuk sosyal destek algisi ve bilissel yeniden degerlendirme Koronavirus sirasinda depresyon icin risk olusturmaktadir. Salgin surecindeki kaygi icin ise, genc olmak, salgina cozum bulunacagini dusunmemek, bilissel yeniden degerlendirme stratejisini az kullanmak ve dusuk sosyal destek algisi risk faktorlerindendir. Online destek programlarinin erisilebilirliginin kadinlar, genc insanlar gibi belli hassas gruplara yonelik arttirilmasi onemlidir. Ayrica, bu tur salgin, deprem gibi afet durumlarindan bireylerin olumsuz olarak daha az etkilenmeleri icin bilissel yeniden degerlendirme stratejisinin aktarilabilecegi cesitli psiko-egitim programlari olusturulabilir. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)