Editorial

This issue of Psychology hub comes to light in a period when several countries in the world are trying to come back to a more or less ordinary life after months of restrictions to their freedom due to the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, and the restrictions adopted to fight against it have had, among other things, relevant psychological consequences that need to be dealt with. The first three papers of this issue address some of the problems connected to the pandemics and the consequent restrictions. The first paper, “Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on older adult’s emotional regulation and quality of life”, written by Lina Pezzuti, Monica Figus and Marco Lauriola, is based on the comparison of the “emotional regulation and the quality of life of a group of 150 elderly assessed during the pandemic isolation for COVID-19 with the normative data of a group of pre-COVID-19 elderly” and assesses “the relationship between emotional regulation, perceived acute stress, quality of life, and risk perception with the variables age, years of education, gender, and cohabitation status of elders”. Its results point out that “the elders assessed during the Covid period had a lower capacity for emotional regulation… had a higher perceived risk of COVID-19 infection, and were less satisfied with their independence; higher levels of education reflected a greater capacity for emotional regulation; women showed a lower capacity for emotional regulation and higher stress and perceived risk; the elders who lived alone seemed to be more vulnerable than who lived with other people”.