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The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has generated many negative psychological outcomes, such as depression, in adolescents. Exploration of protective factors for adolescent mental health is urgently needed, and no research has examined the role of parental involvement. METHODS: From March to April 202...

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Autores principales: Ding, Fangyuan, Jia, Yuncheng, Xiong, Xianmeng, Chen, Peichao, Xiong, Shulin, Cheng, Gang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9014637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35447221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.04.074
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author Ding, Fangyuan
Jia, Yuncheng
Xiong, Xianmeng
Chen, Peichao
Xiong, Shulin
Cheng, Gang
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Jia, Yuncheng
Xiong, Xianmeng
Chen, Peichao
Xiong, Shulin
Cheng, Gang
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has generated many negative psychological outcomes, such as depression, in adolescents. Exploration of protective factors for adolescent mental health is urgently needed, and no research has examined the role of parental involvement. METHODS: From March to April 2020, valid data were collected from 1663 Chinese adolescents through online demographic and other questionnaires. Parental involvement at home was assessed by an adapted questionnaire on parental support in learning at home, stress since the COVID-19 outbreak was measured by the Perceived Stress Scale, and three negative psychological outcomes (i.e., depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS)) were measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale, and PTSD Check List-Civilian Version, respectively. RESULTS: In total, 35.4%, 21% and 25% of adolescents had depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and PTSS, respectively. Three moderated mediation models consistently showed the following: a. Parental involvement indirectly reduced the three psychological problems by alleviating perceived stress, and the indirect effects were not moderated by sex. b. There were negative direct effects of parental involvement on the three psychological problems, and the links were not moderated by sex. c. Sex moderated the associations between perceived stress and the three psychological problems. LIMITATIONS: The cross-sectional design and the sampling of all participants from one junior high school impeded causal inferences and the generalization of our findings, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We found similar indirect and direct protective roles of parental involvement in boys' and girls' mental health, and girls were more vulnerable to stress.
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spelling pubmed-90146372022-04-18 The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic Ding, Fangyuan Jia, Yuncheng Xiong, Xianmeng Chen, Peichao Xiong, Shulin Cheng, Gang J Affect Disord Research Paper BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has generated many negative psychological outcomes, such as depression, in adolescents. Exploration of protective factors for adolescent mental health is urgently needed, and no research has examined the role of parental involvement. METHODS: From March to April 2020, valid data were collected from 1663 Chinese adolescents through online demographic and other questionnaires. Parental involvement at home was assessed by an adapted questionnaire on parental support in learning at home, stress since the COVID-19 outbreak was measured by the Perceived Stress Scale, and three negative psychological outcomes (i.e., depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS)) were measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale, and PTSD Check List-Civilian Version, respectively. RESULTS: In total, 35.4%, 21% and 25% of adolescents had depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and PTSS, respectively. Three moderated mediation models consistently showed the following: a. Parental involvement indirectly reduced the three psychological problems by alleviating perceived stress, and the indirect effects were not moderated by sex. b. There were negative direct effects of parental involvement on the three psychological problems, and the links were not moderated by sex. c. Sex moderated the associations between perceived stress and the three psychological problems. LIMITATIONS: The cross-sectional design and the sampling of all participants from one junior high school impeded causal inferences and the generalization of our findings, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We found similar indirect and direct protective roles of parental involvement in boys' and girls' mental health, and girls were more vulnerable to stress. Elsevier B.V. 2022-07-01 2022-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9014637/ /pubmed/35447221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.04.074 Text en © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Research Paper
Ding, Fangyuan
Jia, Yuncheng
Xiong, Xianmeng
Chen, Peichao
Xiong, Shulin
Cheng, Gang
The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title_full The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title_fullStr The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title_full_unstemmed The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title_short The protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 epidemic
title_sort protective role of parental involvement at home in negative psychological outcomes among chinese adolescents during the covid-19 epidemic
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9014637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35447221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.04.074
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