Self-regulation of emotional responses to Zika: Spiral of fear
Self-regulation of emotional responses to Zika: Spiral of fear
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0199828
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发表时间：
2018-07-10
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3.7
通讯作者：
Li, Ruobing
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作者：
Dillard, James Price;Yang, Chun;Li, Ruobing
对传染病的恐惧会造成各种问题，其中最重要的是恐惧本身。一个重要的问题是个人如何试图控制他们的恐惧。寨卡病毒在美国的出现提供了一个在自然背景下研究这个问题的机会。世界卫生组织发布九天后开始宣布寨卡病毒为世界健康危机后，我们从居住在美国南部 18 至 35 岁的女性 (N=561) 中收集了两波调查数据。大多数受访者（71%）使用一种或多种情绪调节策略，多数受访者（41%）使用多种策略。对寨卡病毒的恐惧对回避、重新评估或竞争没有表现出明显的影响，这三种策略都不能有效地下调恐惧。然而，恐惧和抑制表现出一种自我强化的循环，其中恐惧增加了抑制的使用，而抑制则增加了恐惧反应的强度。尽管观察到的关联很小，但随着时间的推移或在大量个体中累积，即使是适度的影响也可能产生严重后果。
Fear of infectious disease can create a variety of problems not the least of which is fear itself. An important question is how individuals attempt to manage their fear. The appearance of Zika in the U.S. presented an opportunity to examine this issue in a consequential natural context. Beginning nine days after the W.H.O. declared Zika a world health crisis, two-waves of survey data were collected from women ages 18-35 who were living in the Southern U.S. (N=561). Most respondents (71%) used one or more emotion regulation strategies and a plurality (41%) utilized multiple strategies. Fear of Zika showed no demonstrable effect on avoidance, reappraisal, or contesting and none of these three strategies were effective at down-regulating fear. Fear and suppression, however, showed a self-reinforcing cycle in which fear increased use of suppression and suppression increased intensity of the fear response. Although the observed associations were small, even modest effects can be consequential when cumulated over time or across large numbers of individuals.