Promoting Adolescents' Social Responsibility through Parent-Adolescent Conversations about the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This longitudinal mixed-method study examined the content and qualities of parent-adolescent conversations about the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether discourse about social responsibility (i.e., care for others and health protective behaviors [HPBs]) within conversations predicted changes in adolescents' socially responsible behavior across the first year of the pandemic.

Methods

Participants were 122 ethnically/racially diverse parent-adolescent dyads from Southern California. In spring 2020 (Time 1), adolescents completed an online survey measuring their engagement in HPBs (e.g., social distancing) and prosociality (both pandemic-specific and global). A few months following survey completion (Time 2), parent-adolescent dyads engaged in an audio-recorded conversation

SUBMITTER: Peplak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10849067 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature