ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
"I Hate This": A Qualitative Analysis of Adolescents' Self-Reported Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' and young adults' experiences at school: A systematic narrative review.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth - a systematic review.Child and adolescent mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Types of ethnic-racial identity belongingness predicting mental health and suicide ideation: Exploring racial and gender differences among Latine-White and Black-White Multiracial adolescents.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
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- The interlinked trajectories of interpersonal attachment and maladaptive behaviors among Chinese adolescents-a latent growth modeling approach.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Adolescents' meaning making of salient emotional experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- Transitioning to college during COVID-19: A brief report on incoming students' self-reports of mental health from 2020 to 2022.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with adverse childhood experiences among refugee and host-community children and adolescents in Jordan.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Adolescents perception of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and associated mental health and well-being: gender, age and socioeconomic differences in 22 countries.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Psychological distress, wellbeing and resilience: modelling adolescent mental health profiles during the COVID-19 pandemic.Discover mental health · 2024Article
- Parental Experiences of Distance Learning in Families with and without an Adolescent with ADHD/ASD: A Large Qualitative Survey Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Evolution after the Revolution: How Classical and Online School Chemistry Teaching Has Changed during the COVID-19 Pandemic?Journal of chemical education · 2024Article
- Predictors of loneliness among middle childhood and adolescence during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- School students' burdens and resources after 2 years of COVID-19 in Austria: a qualitative study using content analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Stability of DNA-Methylation Profiles of Biological Aging in Children and Adolescents.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Youth experiences with and perspectives on long covid.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThe COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges for adolescents because of disruptions in school and social life. We compiled a diverse group (36.8% nonwhite or multiracial) of high schoolers' open-ended responses to the question: "What are your three biggest challenges right now?" (N = 719 adolescents).
methodsUsing open and axial coding, we identified N = 1,902 thematic units (M = 2.64, SD = .701) and 14 thematic categories, including mental health, physical health, family, friends, social connection and community, academics, missing important events, socioeconomic issues, routine, COVID rules and adjustment, contraction/exposure to COVID, technology, and future plans.
resultsAdolescents most commonly reported challenges related to academics (23.7%) but also cited high numbers of challenges in mental (14.8%) and physical (13.2%) health and friend (11.4%) domains.
conclusionsEfforts should focus on helping adolescents cultivate academic skills needed during school closures, providing mental/physical health resources and helping them navigate peer relationships-especially given ongoing remote education and social distancing due to the pandemic.
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