Which Anxious Adolescents Were Most Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Morales, Santiago; Zeytinoglu, Selin; Lorenzo, Nicole E.; Chronis‐Tuscano, Andrea; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Almas, Alisa N.; Pine, Daniel S.

doi:10.1177/21677026211059524

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“…Several studies have confirmed that these baseline levels were a strong risk factor for mental health difficulties during the pandemic ( Czeisler et al, 2020 ; McGinty et al, 2020 ; Fancourt et al, 2021 ; Shanahan et al, 2022 ). For instance, people who reported higher levels of anxiety even before the pandemic experienced a steeper decline in mental health during the pandemic (e.g., Morales et al, 2022 ). Even though we do not have the pre-pandemic data, our results suggest that general/mental health is a significant predictor of COVID anxiety.…”

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COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents

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IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic and its related restrictions, mainly social distancing, had an impact on the mental health of various groups, including adolescents.MethodsThe main goal of our study was to explore the impact of gender, age, resilience (measured using the Brief Resilience Scale), attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance (both measured using the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised Scale for adolescents), and mental and general health (measured using items of SF-8 Health Survey) on COVID anxiety (measured using the COVID Anxiety Scale) among a sample of Slovak adolescents (N = 1,786, age 15 to 19, mean age = 16.8, SD = 1.2). The data were collected online between 13 April and 24 May 2021.ResultsFour nested linear regression models were fitted to the data and evaluated. The significant predictors that had a greater effect than our smallest effect size of interest (β = 0.10) were gender (β = −0.26, p < 0.001, where boys had lower scores in COVID anxiety), general and mental health (β = −0.13 and β = −0.14, respectively, both with p < 0.001), resilience (β = −0.12, p < 0.001), and attachment avoidance (β = −0.11, p < 0.001). Similarly, age and attachment anxiety were significant predictors with a lower effect size (β = 0.06, p = 0.003, and β = 0.09, p < 0.001, respectively).DiscussionOur results are in line with previous research findings highlighting the importance of prevention and interventions programs focused mainly on preventing loneliness and social disconnection, fostering secure attachment with parents and peers, and increasing the resilience of adolescents, especially in the stressful time of a pandemic, to promote their mental health.

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“…The scale was preceded by a brief text explaining what a stressful event is and that the health emergency due to COVID-19 can be defined as a stressful event. Thus, the students were asked to respond to the items on how they felt in the last month, referring to COVID-19 (e.g., Morales et al, 2022). After reverse scoring answers to the positive items, a total PSS-10 score was computed by averaging across the 10 items so that higher scores reflected higher levels of stress.…”

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Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support

Skinner,

De Luca,

Nocentini

et al. 2023

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted opportunities for adolescents to progress through a typical developmental trajectory of adjustment and self-regulation. Adolescents across many contexts have shown an increase in adjustment difficulties during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels. Utilizing data collected from 830 Italian adolescents from one time-point just prior to when pandemic restrictions were enacted, and then at two additional time-points 12 and 24 months later, we examined trajectories of internalizing symptoms, regulatory self-efficacy for managing negative emotions, and the time-varying impact of COVID-related stress and social support. Latent Growth Curve Analyses (LGCAs) revealed that COVID stress predicted increased internalizing symptoms and decreased regulatory self-efficacy beyond what was estimated by the developmental trajectory. Further, at Time 3, the impact of perceived COVID stress on internalizing symptoms and regulatory self-efficacy was stronger than at Time 2. Co-development results were similar for males and females. There was no time-varying impact of social support on the co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory self-efficacy. The findings are important for informing interventions to strengthen coping strategies for adolescents during stressful community-wide events.

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“…Participants responded to each item using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (very little or not at all) to 5 (a great deal), with higher scores reflecting greater concern. As a composite score, recent research using this scale indicates good test-retest reliability (rs > .73) and good internal consistency (α = .80-.88; Kuhlman et al, 2021;Morales et al, 2022).…”

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A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.

Calma-Birling¹,

Zelazo²

2022

American Psychologist

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of many high school and college students, and recent studies indicate increased emotional distress in this age group. We examined associations among 10 pandemic-related concerns, 21 affects, and three self-regulatory skills using cross-sectional online survey data from high school and college students in two regions of the United States (Study 1: N = 392 and Study 2: N = 1,200). Network models of regularized partial correlation networks revealed both equifinal and multifinal pathways between specific COVID-19 concerns and positive and negative affects. In both studies, concern about conflict with parents was the pandemic-related concern most strongly connected to negative affects, mindfulness was most strongly connected to pandemic-related concerns and negative affects, and self-compassion was most strongly connected to positive affects. These findings provide greater insight into risk and resilience factors associated with students’ emotional well-being during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Which Anxious Adolescents Were Most Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Cited by 15 publications

References 54 publications

COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents

COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents

Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support

A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.

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