You Do Not Have to Get through This Alone: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Psychosocial Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic across Four Countries

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you for your very helpful review.

You will find our point-by-point responses in the attached word document.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

This is a well-written manuscript with the interesting perspective of the role of interpersonal emotion regulation in contrast to intrapersonal mechanisms in coping with the arduous situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The topic has not been studied much earlier and thus, the interpersonal perspective is innovative and the results worth to be internationally published.  The principal weaknesses of the study design are as follows:  the data is purely cross-sectional and is based on a convenience sample from four rich Western countries which to some extents limits generalizability including whether the results can be applied outside the Covid-19 context. However, the authors discuss these limitations well and hence, there are no real arguments against publication. Personally, I dislike the use of the verb 'predict' in cross-sectional settings, but I know this being very common, so it has to be accepted although I would prefer the verb 'associate' in this context. 

Author Response

Thank you for this very kind and supportive commentary on our manuscript. We appreciate the suggestion of using ‘associated with’ instead of ‘predicted’ and have changed the specific wording throughout the manuscript.