Paper Title
Pessimistic/Optimistic Attitudes and Negative Emotional Experience of Adult Bulgarians During Covid 19 Lockdown Periods

Abstract
An online study on emotional experienceof Bulgarian subjects in the context of social constraints during lockdown is presented. The aim is to explore the effect of optimitic and pessimistic attitudes on negative emotional experience connected to the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. 472adult Bulgarians have been examined. Toolkit: (1) author's questionnaire consisting of four subscales: negative emotional experience related to welfare certainty, negative emotional experience related to health, negative emotional experience related to personal control over the situatio and negative emotional experience related to family relationships (Koychev & Babakova, 2020); and (2) a scale for optimistic and pessimistic attitudes (Velichkov & Radoslavova, 2005). Results: Applying linear regression analysis it was found that the pessimistic attitudes have the strongest effect on the negative emotional experience related to welfare certainty (β = 0.256; p≤0.001). Health worries are influenced by pessimistic attitudes (β = 0.206; p = 0.001).The results of the Bulgarian subjects in the age of 25-55 years show a negative correlation between optimism and worries about family relations. In the studied group pessimistic attitudes influenced anxiety related to loosing personal control over the situation (β = 0.232; p = 0.001).