Boullion AnnaMaria, Linde-Krieger Linnea B, Doan Stacey N, Yates Tuppett M
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, AZ, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Sep 1;14:1216502. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216502. eCollection 2023.
The United States (U.S.) Surgeon General Advisory has characterized the COVID-19 pandemic as a youth mental health crisis. Thus, elucidating factors affecting adolescents' mental health during the pandemic is important for supporting youth through current and future challenges. Parenting influences adolescents' ability to cope with stressors, and emotion regulation strategy use may underlie these effects.
This longitudinal study of 206 adolescents (49% female; 46.6% Latine) from the U.S. evaluated pathways from perceived parental warmth and affection at age 12 to changes in adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems from before the pandemic (age 14) to the initial phase of the U.S COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 (age 15) through adolescents' pre-pandemic cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression emotion regulation strategy use at age 14.
Parental warmth and affection predicted decreased internalizing, but not externalizing, problems during the initial phase of the pandemic, and this effect was explained by adolescents' reduced reliance on expressive suppression as an emotion regulation strategy.
These findings illuminate parenting and emotion regulation strategy selection as modifiable processes to support adolescents' mental health in this crisis and beyond.
美国卫生局局长咨询报告将新冠疫情描述为一场青少年心理健康危机。因此，阐明疫情期间影响青少年心理健康的因素对于帮助青少年应对当前及未来的挑战至关重要。养育方式会影响青少年应对压力源的能力，而情绪调节策略的运用可能是这些影响的潜在原因。
这项针对206名来自美国的青少年（49%为女性；46.6%为拉丁裔）的纵向研究评估了从12岁时感知到的父母温暖与关爱，到通过青少年在14岁时疫情前的认知重评和表达抑制情绪调节策略的运用，如何影响从疫情前（14岁）到2020年春季美国新冠疫情初期（15岁）青少年内化和外化问题的变化。
父母的温暖与关爱预示着在疫情初期内化问题会减少，但外化问题不会减少，而且这种影响可以通过青少年减少对表达抑制作为一种情绪调节策略的依赖来解释。
这些发现表明，养育方式和情绪调节策略的选择是在这场危机及之后支持青少年心理健康的可改变过程。
