Semantic Regulation of mental states of the individuals during the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic

Abstract

The first ever case of Corona Virus Pneumonia was reported on 8th December 2019 in Hubei Province of Wuhan China. The virus was believed to be transferred from seafood market and subsequently the causative agent was identified as SARS-COV-2. In this study, we conducted a study aimed at identifying the nature and characteristics of the influence of the cognitive assessment of the situation associated with the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, its semantic perception on the mental states of people of working age.The main semantic education of a person during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic is situational semantic attitudes - the primary ways of responding to signs of situational uncertainty, which carry out actual management of mental states, exerting a stabilizing or conversely destabilizing effect on them. Situational semantic attitudes of the personality play an indirect role in the interaction of the situation and mental states. It is not the situation itself that becomes the source of the emergence and development of certain mental states, but those situational semantic attitudes that, as a result of conscious and unconscious thought processes, enhance or weaken the signs of uncertainty of the situation that has arisen and determines the selective control of the mental activity of the individual. When organizing psychological assistance to the population during periods of pandemics, it is necessary to take into account the results of the study, which may affect the development of targeted programs for the formation of an adequate perception of the situation that has arisen and the development of conscious mechanisms for self-regulation of mental states.