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Longitudinal Changes in Adolescents’ School Bonding During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Individual, Parenting, and Family Correlates
Author(s) -
Maiya Sahitya,
Dotterer Aryn M.,
Whiteman Shawn D.
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.12653
Subject(s) - psychology , longitudinal study , pandemic , coping (psychology) , covid-19 , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
The current study examined changes in adolescents’ school bonding from before to during the COVID‐19 pandemic and its individual, parenting, and family‐level correlates. Participants were two adolescents (50% male; M age = 14 years) and one parent (85% female; M age = 45 years) from 682 families ( N = 2046) from an ongoing longitudinal study. Adolescents reported on their school bonding, stress, and coping, while parents reported on their involvement in adolescents’ education and pandemic‐related financial need. A two‐wave latent change score model suggested that adolescents’ school bonding decreased from before to during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Stress and pandemic‐related financial need served as risk factors, whereas coping and parental involvement served as protective factors against declines in adolescents’ school bonding.