Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 24;20(3):2120. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032120.
The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound effects on physical and mental health worldwide. Students transitioning out of high school were uniquely impacted at the onset of the pandemic, having missed the opportunity to properly mark the end of their final year in the K-12 school system. The adverse effects of this loss on this population are still unknown. The purpose of the current study was to examine stress, wellbeing, and affect in a sample of 168 students ( = 168; age = 17.0, = 0.46; 60% female; 40% male) who were completing their final year of high school during the early stages of the pandemic when emergency stay-at-home orders were in place. Participants completed an online survey assessing the impact of COVID-19 on their life satisfaction (pre-COVID19, during COVID-19, and anticipated five years from now), stress, positive affect, and negative affect. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to create classes of participants based on their responses to the pandemic. A two-subgroup solution provided the best model for the life satisfaction outcome variable. Subgroup 1, , comprised 24% ( = 40) of the sample and reported high life satisfaction ratings one year prior to COVID-19 and a slight decrease in life satisfaction during COVID-19, and they anticipated an increase in life satisfaction 5 years from now. This group was characterized by low stress, low negative affect, and high positive affect during the pandemic. Subgroup 2, , comprised 76% of the population ( = 128) and experienced similarly high retrospective ratings of pre-COVID life satisfaction but a larger decrease in life satisfaction during the pandemic and a smaller increase in five years. The realist group was characterized by low positive affect, high stress, and high negative affect during the pandemic. The findings suggest that during the pandemic, certain subsamples of adolescents had greater difficulty in managing this transitional period and experienced changes in mood and well-being (i.e., affect, stress) as compared to other adolescents (i.e., ). Future research should investigate the characteristics and coping mechanisms that are instrumental for increasing life satisfaction and positive affect while lowering stress in this population.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行对全球的身心健康产生了深远影响。学生在大流行开始时受到了独特的影响，他们错过了在 K-12 学校系统中最后一年结束的机会。这种损失对这一人群的不利影响尚不清楚。本研究的目的是在一个由 168 名学生（n = 168；年龄 = 17.0，SD = 0.46；60%女性；40%男性）组成的样本中检查压力、幸福感和影响，这些学生在大流行早期（当时紧急居家令已经生效）完成高中的最后一年。参与者完成了一项在线调查，评估 COVID-19 对他们生活满意度的影响（COVID-19 之前、期间和预计五年后）、压力、积极影响和消极影响。潜在类别分析（LCA）用于根据参与者对大流行的反应创建参与者的类别。两亚组解决方案为生活满意度结果变量提供了最佳模型。亚组 1， ，由样本的 24%（n = 40）组成，报告说在 COVID-19 之前一年生活满意度评分很高，在 COVID-19 期间生活满意度略有下降，预计五年后生活满意度会增加。这一组在大流行期间的压力、负面情绪和积极情绪都较低。亚组 2， ，由 76%的人群（n = 128）组成，经历了类似的高 COVID-19 之前生活满意度回顾评分，但在大流行期间生活满意度下降幅度更大，五年后生活满意度增加幅度更小。现实组在大流行期间的积极情绪较低，压力和负面情绪较高。研究结果表明，在大流行期间，某些青少年亚组在管理这一过渡时期方面遇到了更大的困难，并且在情绪和幸福感方面（即，影响、压力）发生了变化与其他青少年相比（即， ）。未来的研究应该调查在这一人群中增加生活满意度和积极情绪、降低压力的特征和应对机制。
