ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2022
Young Adult Adaptability to the Social Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Friendships.
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- A systematic review of longitudinal risk and protective factors for loneliness in youth.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Pooled it
- The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Anxiety: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Role of Social Networks on Depression and Anxiety Among a Sample of Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Emerging Adults.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Trial
- Growing Up Through a Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study of How the COVID-19 Pandemic Shaped the Transition to Adulthood for Youth With Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families.Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- Young People's Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England.Social indicators research · 2026Article
- An exploratory study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents' psychosocial well-being in the Kwadukuza community.The Pan African medical journal · 2026Article
- Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emotional Regulation, Psychological Symptoms, and College Adjustment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Impact of mask use on facial emotion recognition in individuals with subclinical social anxiety: an eye-tracking study.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Links Between Best-Friendship Quality and Well-Being From Early Emerging Adulthood to Early Established Adulthood.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2024Article
- Analysis of losses in physiotherapy students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological approach.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The Psychological Impact of COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Lockdown and During-Lockdown Periods Among Saudi General Population.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
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- Exploring Social Bonds and Well-Being in Young Adults during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Emotional wellbeing and coping among Latinx young adults in the time of COVID-19.Journal of community psychology · 2023Article
- Cyber-Victimization and Mental Health Concerns among Middle School Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- Predictors of Recurrent Laboratory-Confirmed Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in a Cohort of Healthcare Workers.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Getting Through the Crisis Together: Do Friendships Contribute to University Students' Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic enables assessment of the adaptability of young adults to non-normative stressors threatening their social-emotional wellbeing. Focusing specifically on a developmentally critical social challenge of restricted in-person contact, the goal of the current study was to examine the role of friendships in alleviating social-emotional problems. Data were collected via online surveys from an ethnically diverse sample (n = 1557) of 20 to 24-year-olds (62% cisgender female, 31% male, 7% gender diverse or gender questioning) in spring of 2021. Longitudinal data from an earlier time point involving an age-normative social challenge (transition out of high school) were used as a comparison. The comparisons between the transition from high school and the pandemic showed that whereas social anxiety and depressive symptoms increased, loneliness decreased. Participants also reported having slightly more friends and rated the overall quality of their friendships as somewhat higher. Regression analyses revealed that a greater number of friends over time and greater satisfaction with friend electronic communication during the pandemic were most robustly related to lower social and generalized anxiety as well as depressive symptoms, over and above earlier social-emotional wellbeing and a number of relevant correlates. Loneliness was protected by higher quality of friendships, greater contact with friends, as well as more frequent and satisfying electronic communication with friends. The results suggest that although young adults are facing emotional challenges during the continued pandemic, they are also able to adapt by keeping in touch with friends to decrease subjective sense of isolation. The findings have novel intervention implications to reduce loneliness.
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