Doomsurfing and doomscrolling mediate psychological distress in COVID-19 lockdown: Implications for awareness of cognitive biases
Anand N, Sharma MK, Thakur PC, Mondal I, Sahu M, Singh P, J AS, Kande JS, Ms N, Singh R
Perspectives in psychiatric care · 15 citations
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- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
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- Independent funding
- Government
- Satyam Department of Science and Technology, India
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Publication
- Published
- 2021-04-20 · Perspect Psychiatr Care · vol. 58 · issue 1 · pp. 170–172
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 62 citations · more than 99% of similar papers · 12.3× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 7 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Keywords
- doomscrolling, psychological distress, COVID-19 lockdown, cognitive biases, emotion regulation, anxiety, uncertainty, internet use
- MeSH
- humans, cognition, communicable disease control, bias, psychological distress, covid-19, sars-cov-2
10 authors
From IN
- Nitin AnandNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
- Manoj Kumar Sharma · correspondingNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
- Pranjali Chakraborty ThakurNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
- Ishita MondalNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
- Maya SahuNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
- Priya SinghNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a significant increase in the consumption of the internet for work, leisure time activities, and has also generated substantial amounts of anxiety, and uncertainty, which has lead individuals to spend a lot of time surfing the internet for the latest news on developments in the COVID-19 crisis. This ends up as scrolling or surfing through a lot of pessimistic news items. This search for information during COVID-19 is apparently influenced by a number of cognitive biases as well as mediated by poor affect regulation skills. Thus, there is a need to address these cognitive biases and promote affect regulation strategies across health settings.
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