Publication Date
1-1-2023
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