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Chinese Adolescents’ Coping with COVID‐19: Relationships with Emotional Maladjustment and Parental Reactions to Negative Emotions
Author(s) -
Shi Zeyi,
Wang Qian
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.12649
Subject(s) - psychology , coping (psychology) , covid-19 , developmental psychology , path analysis (statistics) , emotional reaction , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , disease , statistics , mathematics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Two hundred and thirteen Chinese adolescents (103 females; mean age = 12.18 years) completed a survey one year before (Wave 1) and five months after the COVID‐19 outbreak (Wave 2). Path analysis revealed that after controlling for adolescents’ emotional maladjustment at Wave 1, perceived parental supportive reactions to adolescents’ negative emotions at Wave 1 predicted adolescents’ greater use of approach coping and less use of avoidance coping at Wave 2, which in turn, was associated with less emotional maladjustment at Wave 2; conversely, perceived parental nonsupportive reactions at Wave 1 predicted adolescents’ greater use of avoidance coping at Wave 2, which in turn, was associated with greater emotional maladjustment at Wave 2. The findings were similar for mothers and fathers.