What happened to the emotions of the students in pandemic?

Abstract

The whole of humanity has been facing for two years the massive attack of a virus called SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), as one of the last global pandemics. The first case was reported in the Chinese province of Wuhan the end of 2019 and was communicated to the world on December 31 of the same year; its spread began to globalize in February 2020. While the vaccine was not available, mortality spread, the hospital infrastructure of the countries collapsed, the economy - worldwide - started recession processes, physical isolation, the absence of personal interactions and the danger of massive contagion were latent; situations that generated total insecurity, anguish and uncertainty in families and society. Emotions of near and inevitable deaths of friends, co-workers, relatives, increased negative emotions in their life and the future. This research proposes to identify diverse strategies of self-regulation of personal emotions. A documentary research and bibliographic design was carried out. Some authors, such as Labarrere (2020), comment that emotional self-regulation is defined as a characteristic of temperament and behavior, and describes it as "activities performed by a subject to create, maintain and modify his/her behavior according to what he/she perceives as reality or accepts as being". It is concluded that for the self-regulation of emotions skills are used to overcome problems and achieve self-discovery of their origins and in this way self-regulate personal emotions.