ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
COVID-19 Employment Status, Dyadic Family Relationships, and Child Psychological Well-Being.
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- Love in the time of COVID-19: A systematic mapping review of empirical research on romantic relationships one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.Family process · 2022Pooled it
- Parental Factors Moderate the Association Between COVID-19 Disruption and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.The Journal of early adolescence · 2026Article
- Associations Between US High School Student and Parental Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes, Short Sleep, and Abuse by a Household Adult.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality.Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association · 2025Article
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- Economic stress and child outcomes: the family stress model among Asian American families during COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Associations Between U.S. High-School Student and Parental Job Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Student Substance Use: Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES), 2021.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Unraveling the complexities of adolescent depression: A call for action.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Assessing the psychometric properties of the World Health Organization -five well-being index (WHO-5) in Filipino samples amid the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Long-Term Mandatory Homeschooling during COVID-19 Had Compounding Mental Health Effects on Parents and Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- The Impact of Caregivers on COVID-19 Fears, Behaviors, and Perceived Impact in a Majority Black American Sample of Children.Mental health science · 2024Article
- Disproportionately High Rates of Burnout Among Disabled Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research square · 2024Article
- Association between Family Functioning, Child Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Parental Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social experiences and youth psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeCOVID-19 has led to soaring unemployment rates and the widespread adoption of working-from-home (WFH) arrangements that have disrupted family relationships and adolescent psychological well-being. This longitudinal study investigated how parental employment status (i.e., job loss and WFH) influenced adolescents' daily affect indirectly through family functioning (i.e., parent-adolescent conflict and parental warmth) and whether these links varied by family's socioeconomic status.
methodsDaily-diary approaches were used to collect dyadic parent-adolescent data from a nationwide American sample (6,524 daily assessments from 447 parent-adolescent dyads; 45% black, 36% white, 10% Latinx, 7% Asian American, 2% Native American) over the course of 15 consecutive days at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
resultsParents who experienced job loss demonstrated increases in parent-child conflict, which in turn predicted decreases in child positive affect and increases in child negative affect. Furthermore, parents' WFH status predicted increases in parental warmth, which in turn predicted increases in child positive affect and decreases in child negative affect. Parents of low-income families were more likely to experience job loss (24% vs. 13%) and less likely to WFH (44% vs. 73%) than middle-high income parents.
conclusionsAdolescents from families facing economic hardship and employment shifts during COVID-19 experienced changes in parent-child relational dynamics that influenced their emotional well-being. Recognizing these shifts in family ecology is critical to health providers' ability to screen for mental health, assess existing family supports, and provide timely, targeted information about stress management and contending with family conflict.
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