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Doomsurfing and doomscrolling mediate psychological distress in COVID‐19 lockdown: Implications for awareness of cognitive biases
Author(s) -
Anand Nitin,
Sharma Manoj Kumar,
Thakur Pranjali Chakraborty,
Mondal Ishita,
Sahu Maya,
Singh Priya,
J. Ajith S.,
Kande Jayesh Suresh,
MS Neeraj,
Singh Ripudaman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/ppc.12803
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , covid-19 , pessimism , distress , anxiety , cognition , psychology , pandemic , the internet , cognitive bias , scrolling , internet privacy , applied psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , medicine , computer science , philosophy , communication , epistemology , pathology , virology , world wide web , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , artificial intelligence
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.