Emotion regulation habits and emotional states of college students during lockdown: A cross-sectional survey
Shu-Xin Zhao, Tao Han, Wei-Zhi Bi, Le-Le Fei, Lu-Luan Han, Yu-Lin Wang, Zhi-Guang Ping, Chong-Jian Wang, Chang-Fu Hao, Yong-Juan Xin
Shu-Xin Zhao, Tao Han, Wei-Zhi Bi, Le-Le Fei, Lu-Luan Han, Yu-Lin Wang, Chang-Fu Hao, Yong-Juan Xin, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, China
Yu-Lin Wang, Department of Gynaecology, The Second People’s Hospital of Yibin, Yibin 644000, Sichuan Province, China
Zhi-Guang Ping, Chong-Jian Wang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, China
Co-first authors: Shu-Xin Zhao and Tao Han.
Author contributions: Zhao SX was responsible for formal analysis, methodology; Han T handled data curation, investigation; Zhao SX and Han T wrote the original draft, they contributed equally to this article, they are the co-first authors of this manuscript; Bi WZ, Fei LL, Han LL, and Wang YL participated in writing the draft; Ping ZG, Wang CJ, and Hao CF took charge of supervision, methodology; Xin YJ was in charge of conceptualization, project administration, supervision; Ping ZG, Wang CJ, Hao CF, and Xin YJ wrote, reviewed, and edited; and all authors thoroughly reviewed and endorsed the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Zhengzhou University Life Science Ethics, approval No. ZZUIRB2024-216.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed online consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: All data generated or used during the study are shown to be available through the corresponding author.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Yong-Juan Xin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Science Avenue, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, China.
yjxin@zzu.edu.cn
Received: July 10, 2025
Revised: July 30, 2025
Accepted: October 15, 2025
Published online: January 19, 2026
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