AUTOCONSCIÊNCIA, COPING E ESPIRITUALIDADE: SENTIDOS E VIVÊNCIAS DE SOFRIMENTO EM TEMPO DE PANDEMIA COVID-19 - PERSPECTIVAS DA PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA

Abstract

The epidemiological and health crisis that has plagued the world in recent months has imposed several psychological and intersubjective dynamics changes. If, on the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted human fragility in the face of the imperious and destructive force of the viral antigen, on the other, it opened the need for a psychological look at cognitive skills (such as coping, religious/spiritual coping, meaning construction, self-awareness, and self-regulation) involved in the experience of the pandemic, also highlighting the epistemological character of the pandemic phenomenon. The emerging field is, above all, the possibility of weaving new perspectives on the subject against the uniqueness of the pandemic. What moves us, therefore, is to pay attention to the current context and its new psychological demands as a field that brings out the vicissitudes of the subject, its intra- and interpsychological tensions, its potential in the dynamic reconstruction of the self, and the possibilities of recomposing daily life before the indeterminacies of the present time. Thus, we followed a path that, although new, presents itself as promising for Cognitive Psychology.

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic, Cognitive Psychology, Self-Awareness, Coping, Spirituality.