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Emerging Adults' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Longitudinal Study on the Importance of Social Support.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate emerging adults' mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether social support from mothers, fathers, and best friends moderated the change in mental health. Participants were 98 emerging adults (46% men) who were assessed prior to COVID-19 (M age = 20.60 years) and during the first lockdown (M age = 22.67 years). Results indicated that the pandemic did not uniformly lead to elevated levels of mental health problems, but instead depended on level of mental health problems prior to COVID-19 and the source of support. For emerging adults who already experienced more problems prior to COVID-19, more maternal support was related to decreases in general psychological distress and depressive symptoms, whereas more paternal support was related to increases in general psychological distress and depressive symptoms. Support from best friends were not associated with (changes in) mental health.

SUBMITTER: van den Berg YHM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669206 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Emerging Adults' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Longitudinal Study on the Importance of Social Support.

van den Berg Yvonne H M YHM   Burk William J WJ   Cillessen Antonius H N AHN   Roelofs Karin K  

Emerging adulthood (Print) 20211004 5

The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate emerging adults' mental health <i>before</i> and <i>during</i> the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether social support from mothers, fathers, and best friends moderated the <i>change</i> in mental health. Participants were 98 emerging adults (46% men) who were assessed prior to COVID-19 (<i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 20.60 years) and during the first lockdown (<i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 22.67 years). Results indicated that the pandemic did not uniformly  ...[more]

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