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  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

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  • Policymakers have grappled with balancing COVID-19 lockdown effectiveness against mental health impacts.
  • Evidence on the daily emotional functioning costs of lockdowns remains limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the emotional toll of COVID-19 lockdowns on daily functioning.
  • To compare emotion intensity, persistence, and regulation during and outside of lockdown periods.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from two intensive longitudinal studies in Australia (2021) with 441 participants and 14,511 observations.
  • Assessed emotions generally and within social interactions across 7-day periods (in lockdown, out of lockdown, or both).

Main Results:

  • Lockdowns were associated with a mild emotional toll: slightly increased negative emotions, decreased positive emotions.
  • Individuals returned to a baseline emotional state more quickly after lockdown periods.
  • Low-effort emotion regulation strategies, such as distraction, were more prevalent during lockdowns.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest potential resilience to repeated lockdowns and no compounding emotional challenges.
  • The emotional toll might be greater in populations with less pandemic privilege (e.g., caregivers).
  • The study's findings are limited in generalizability due to the sample's high pandemic privilege.