Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal; Centre for Psychology at University of Porto, Portugal.
Centre for Psychology at University of Porto, Portugal; Department of Education and Psychology, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Aug;130(Pt 1):105370. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105370. Epub 2021 Oct 18.
Children and youth residential care institutions were forced to introduce adaptations to their regular functioning in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic challenges.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the lockdown on the adolescents' psychological adjustment and whether adolescents' perceived cohesion mitigated the increase of adolescents' psychological adjustment problems.
Participants were 243 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, living in 21 different residential care institutions.
The results suggested a moderating role of cohesion on the stability of adolescents' emotional distress across time. Lower levels of cohesion were related with higher emotional distress stability across time. On the contrary, as cohesion increased, the association between adolescents' emotional distress at T0 and T1 decreased.
Results are discussed considering the mechanisms raised by the institutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and minimize the negative effects on the psychological adjustment of adolescents living in residential care.
为应对 COVID-19 大流行带来的挑战,儿童和青年寄宿机构被迫对其常规运作进行调整。
本研究旨在探讨封锁对青少年心理适应的影响,以及青少年感知到的凝聚力是否减轻了青少年心理适应问题的增加。
参与者为 21 个不同寄宿机构中 243 名年龄在 12 至 18 岁的青少年。
结果表明,凝聚力在青少年情绪困扰的稳定性上存在调节作用。凝聚力水平越低,情绪困扰的稳定性随时间的变化越大。相反,随着凝聚力的增加,青少年在 T0 和 T1 的情绪困扰之间的关联减小。
研究结果考虑了机构为应对 COVID-19 大流行而提出的机制,以及对生活在寄宿机构中的青少年的心理适应的负面影响。