Adolescent Positivity and Future Orientation, Parental Psychological Control, and Young Adult Internalising Behaviours during Covid-19 in Nine Countries

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ID5933477
AuthorsA T Skinner (0000-0001-8083-9487, Center for Child and Family Health, corresponding author), Leyla Çiftçi (0000-0001-9436-2050, MSB Medical School Berlin), Sierra Jones (0000-0003-1454-6314, Duke University), Eva Klotz (Utrecht University), Tamara Ondrušková (0000-0003-4904-8040, University College London), Jennifer E Lansford (0000-0003-1956-4917, Center for Child and Family Health), Liane Peña Alampay (0000-0002-5760-6711, Ateneo de Manila University), Suha M Al-Hassan, Suha M Al‐hassan (0000-0003-1034-3026, Hashemite University), Dario Bacchini (0000-0001-6140-9377, University of Naples Federico II), Marc H Bornstein (0000-0002-6810-8427, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Lei Chang (0000-0001-6457-0254, University of Macau), Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kirby Deater‐deckard (0000-0003-4151-2152, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Laura Di Giunta (0000-0002-2578-8610, Sapienza University of Rome), Kenneth A Dodge (0000-0001-5932-215X, Center for Child and Family Health), Sevtap Gurdal (0000-0001-7881-5670, University West), Qin Liu (0000-0001-6905-9084, Chongqing Medical University), Qian Long (0000-0003-1444-6815, Duke Kunshan University), Paul Oburu (0000-0003-0711-509X, Maseno University), Concetta Pastorelli (0000-0003-2837-7312, Sapienza University of Rome), Emma Sorbring (0000-0003-3328-6538, University West), Sombat Tapanya (0000-0002-2461-6593, Peace Culture Foundation, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand), Laurence Steinberg (0000-0002-2627-3635, King Abdulaziz University), Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado (0000-0002-3218-0187, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogota), Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong (0000-0002-1687-0006, Chiang Mai University)
Year2022
Volume11
Issue2
Pages75
Publication date2022-02-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci11020075
PMID37006895
OpenAlexW4213305447
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited88

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many young adults' lives educationally, economically, and personally. This study investigated associations between COVID-19-related disruption and perception of increases in internalising symptoms among young adults and whether these associations were moderated by earlier measures of adolescent positivity and future orientation and parental psychological control. Participants included 1329 adolescents at Time 1, and 810 of those participants as young adults (M age = 20, 50.4% female) at Time 2 from 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Drawing from a larger longitudinal study of adolescent risk taking and young adult competence, this study controlled for earlier levels of internalising symptoms during adolescence in examining these associations. Higher levels of adolescent positivity and future orientation as well as parent psychological control during late adolescence helped protect young adults from sharper perceived increases in anxiety and depression during the first nine months of widespread pandemic lockdowns in all nine countries. Findings are discussed in terms of how families in the 21st century can foster greater resilience during and after adolescence when faced with community-wide stressors, and the results provide new information about how psychological control may play a protective role during times of significant community-wide threats to personal health and welfare

Anxiety · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Developmental psychology · Future Orientation · Longitudinal study · Mental health · Pandemic · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychological resilience · Stressor · Young adult · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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