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Adolescent Adjustment During COVID‐19: The Role of Close Relationships and COVID‐19‐related Stress
Author(s) -
CampioneBarr Nicole,
Rote Wendy,
Killoren Sarah E.,
Rose Amanda J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12647
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , psychology , developmental psychology , sibling , stress (linguistics) , outbreak , medicine , virology , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, adolescents’ typical social support systems have been disrupted. The present study examined adolescent adjustment during the pandemic (summer, 2020) while controlling for pre‐pandemic adjustment (2017–2018) in 170 youth (ages 12–20) from Missouri and Florida. We also examined whether positive and negative relationship qualities with four close others (i.e., mothers, fathers, siblings, and best friends) interacted with COVID‐related stress to impact adolescent adjustment. In general, we found that close relationships impacted adolescent adjustment in expected directions (i.e., positive relationships better for adjustment, negative relationships more detrimental), but while mothers and fathers impacted adolescent adjustment in largely similar ways to pre‐pandemic studies, influences of relationships with best friends and sibling were more impacted by COVID‐related stress.