Daily affect intensity and variability of adolescents and their parents before and during a COVID-19 lockdown.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic may have a prolonged impact on people's lives, with multiple waves of infections and lockdowns, but how a lockdown may alter emotional functioning is still hardly understood.

Methods

In this 100-daily diaries study, we examined how to affect intensity and variability of adolescents (N = 159, M_age  = 13.3, 61.6% female) and parents (N = 159, M_age  = 45.3, 79.9% female) changed after the onset and during (>50 days) the second COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands, using preregistered piecewise growth models.

Results

We found only an unexpected increase in parents' positive affect intensity after the lockdown onset, but no immediate changes in negative affect intensity or variability. However, both ad

SUBMITTER: de Vries LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100109 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature