Adolescent Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Pre-Pandemic Risk Factors

Authors

Hena Thakur
Morgan Stutts
Jae Wan Choi
Jeff R Temple
Joseph R Cohen

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Journal

Child Indicators Research

Abstract

UNLABELLED: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global mental health crisis that disproportionately impacts adolescents. Loneliness is a particularly salient pandemic psychosocial outcome to understand; however, research to date on this outcome is sparse and largely cross-sectional. In response, we examined pre-pandemic risk factors for pandemic loneliness. Further, we examined how risk may differ based on key demographics, and whether mediation or moderation models best explained potential disparities in experiencing loneliness. Self-reported, pre-pandemic mental health, trauma exposure, and family conflict survey data were collected at Wave 1 in a diverse sample of 369 adolescents (54.5% female, 45.5% male; 30.1% White; 30.9% Black; 18.4% Hispanic; M

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-022-09984-8.

Keywords

COVID-19, Loneliness, Longitudinal, Developmental psychopathology

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Supplementary Materials

PMID: 36310919