Threat of COVID-19 and emotional state during quarantine: Positive and negative affect as mediators in a cross-sectional study of the Spanish population.
María Del Carmen Pérez-FuentesMaría Del Mar Molero JuradoÁfrica Martos MartínezJose Jesús Gázquez LinaresPublished in: PloS one (2020)
A negative affective balance increases both one's perception of threat from COVID-19 and negative mood. Thus, knowing the emotional and cognitive effects on the population would enable measures to be put into service to facilitate their effective coping.