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Aim of the studyOur study investigates associations between social isolation and indicators of general mental health, well-being, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and stress in Brazilian adults. Variables to measure aspects to ease the isolation impact (ease-isolating variables) were also included.Subject or material and methods539 Brazilian adults were recruited by convenience from March 25 to April 07, 2020. We administered a questionnaire on isolation behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO-5, the GHQ-12, the CLA, the GAD-7, the PSS-10, and the CES-D. To analyze data, we relied upon the network analysis approach.ResultsCOVID-19 isolation variables showed positive relationships with mental health indicators, and ease-isolating variables presented mixed associations with mental health indicators. For instance, satisfaction with the quality of social interactions connected strongly and positively with the well-being variable, while negatively with loneliness and general psychological symptoms.DiscussionOur hypotheses were partially confirmed.ConclusionsWe can conclude that the damage to mental health associated with social isolation during the pandemic can be minimized by maintaining satisfactory interpersonal relationships. We have three direct recommendations: mental health professionals should (a) elaborate strategies that contemplate the use of virtual tools to alleviate depressive feelings resulting from isolation, (b) give particular attention to risk groups that are most impacted by the isolation imposed by a pandemic situation and may suffer from loneliness, and (c) consider anxiety control strategies for the anxiogenic adverse reaction generated by the worldwide alert in times of disease outbreaks.

A proposta de uso do Zulliger controlando o número de respostas (R-Otimizado) é inédita e, com isso, é necessária a verificação empírica de suas evidências de validade, objetivo central deste estudo. Levando em conta as similaridades dos métodos de Zulliger e Rorschach, procurou-se evidências de validade para o Zulliger, aplicação R-otimizada, por meio da concordância com Rorschach nas variáveis relacionadas à depressão. Para a amostra, foram recrutados 39 sujeitos, com diagnóstico primário de depressão e que apresentaram sintomatologia depressiva na Escala Baptista de Depressão. Foram administrados os métodos de Zulliger e Rorschach de forma alternada para controle do efeito de um instrumento sobre o outro. Para as análises, foram selecionadas as variáveis relacionadas à depressão, segundo literatura prévia. Os resultados demonstraram evidências iniciais de validade para algumas variáveis relacionadas à depressão, melhorando a correlação entre elas, quando comparado a estudos anteriores que não utilizaram o Zulliger aplicação R-otimizada. Palavras-chave: avaliação psicológica; depressão; psicopatologia; técnicas projetivas; Rorschach.

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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders in the world with more than 300 million diagnoses. Studies on the contributions that instruments offer in understanding the functioning of depressive patients are necessary. Therefore, our study aimed to compare the frequency of codes related to depression in Zulliger R-optimized application in a group of depressive individuals with non-clinical group. The study included 86 participants, 43 depressive patients and 43 non-clinical patients. The Escala Baptista de Depressão (EBADEP-A) was used to identify depressive symptoms in the clinical group and Zulliger was administered with R-optimized application. To compare the groups, the t-test and magnitude of differences (d) were used. The results showed differences between groups in the variables Mixed Determinants, Sum of achromatic color responses, pure color responses (C), Mor and AG. We understood that Zulliger R-optimized application may be useful in understanding the functioning of the depressive subject.

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