COVID-19 Crisis and Emotion Regulation

Abstract

The primary objective of this research is to investigate the significance of emotion regulation to maintain the emotional balance during COVID-19 crisis. The convenience sampling technique has been used to collect a sample of 207 participants. The average age of participants were 22.75 years and SD 2.74. Descriptive statistics is being used to summarize the results, and inferential statistics such as the t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient have been employed to test the study’s hypotheses. The study has revealed a sound factorial structure with ꭓ2(105) =692.80, P≤.000, Determinant of R-matrix is .031, KMO= .760 and Communalities .55.  The factor analysis established four key factors with eigenvalues greater than one accounting for more than 54.82% of the variance together. The four factors were (a) Awareness, (b) Belief, (c) Gratification and (d) Regulation. The global ER-COVID-19 scale has an alpha of .75, indicating that scale items have adequate internal consistency. The constructs or factors can also make an emotional balance in a traumatic situation or develop emotion well-being to face the daily emotional crisis. The study has explored a good construct validity, convergent validity and discrimination validity. An artificial neural network analysis has conformed a good model fit in this study. The study also explored a potential field for a new researcher to research other emotion regulation factors or constructs that could not be revealed in this study.