High Parental Education Protects Against Changes in Adolescent Stress and Mood Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic changes to the daily lives of U.S. adolescents, including isolation from friends and extended family, transition to remote learning, potential illness and death of loved ones, and economic distress. This study's purpose is to measure changes in adolescents' perceived stress and mood early in the pandemic.

Methods

The present study drew from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of high school student participants in an ongoing intervention study in the Midwestern U.S., 128 of whom provided reports of their daily stress and mood both before (December 2017 to March 2020) and during (March-July 2020) the COVID-19 pandemic. We expected to see increases in perceived stress, declines in positive mood states, and increases in ne

SUBMITTER: Collier Villaume S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8415889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature