Adolescent Positivity and Future Orientation, Parental Psychological Control, and Young Adult Internalising Behaviours during COVID-19 in Nine Countries

Ann T. Skinner, Leyla Çiftçi, Sierra Jones, Eva Klotz, Tamara Ondrušková, Jennifer E. Lansford, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado and Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong
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Ann T. Skinner: Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Leyla Çiftçi: Institute for Psychotherapy, Medical School Berlin, 14197 Berlin, Germany
Sierra Jones: Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Eva Klotz: Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tamara Ondrušková: Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London W1T 7NF, UK
Jennifer E. Lansford: Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Liane Peña Alampay: Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City 1008, Philippines
Suha M. Al-Hassan: Department of Special Education, Hashemite University, Zarqa 13110, Jordan
Dario Bacchini: Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80127 Naples, Italy
Marc H. Bornstein: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20810, USA
Lei Chang: Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
Kirby Deater-Deckard: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Laura Di Giunta: Department of Psychology, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 00017 Rome, Italy
Kenneth A. Dodge: Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Sevtap Gurdal: Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, 46131 Trollhättan, Sweden
Qin Liu: Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
Qian Long: Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan 215300, China
Paul Oburu: Department of Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno 879-6112, Kenya
Concetta Pastorelli: Department of Psychology, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 00017 Rome, Italy
Emma Sorbring: Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, 46131 Trollhättan, Sweden
Sombat Tapanya: Peace Culture Foundation, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand
Laurence Steinberg: Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19019, USA
Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado: Department of Psychology, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín 050001, Colombia
Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong: Department of Psychology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-23

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many young adults’ lives educationally, economically, and personally. This study investigated associations between COVID-19-related disruption and perception of increases in internalising symptoms among young adults and whether these associations were moderated by earlier measures of adolescent positivity and future orientation and parental psychological control. Participants included 1329 adolescents at Time 1, and 810 of those participants as young adults ( M age = 20, 50.4% female) at Time 2 from 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Drawing from a larger longitudinal study of adolescent risk taking and young adult competence, this study controlled for earlier levels of internalising symptoms during adolescence in examining these associations. Higher levels of adolescent positivity and future orientation as well as parent psychological control during late adolescence helped protect young adults from sharper perceived increases in anxiety and depression during the first nine months of widespread pandemic lockdowns in all nine countries. Findings are discussed in terms of how families in the 21st century can foster greater resilience during and after adolescence when faced with community-wide stressors, and the results provide new information about how psychological control may play a protective role during times of significant community-wide threats to personal health and welfare.

Keywords: parenting; COVID-19; 21st century; adolescence; internalising (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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