Longitudinal Peer and Family Relationships Impact on Adolescent Mood During COVID-19

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Adolescence is characterized by changes in social relationships and mood. COVID19 social restrictions disrupted these normative shifts in relationship dynamics, while also providing unprecedented stressors on families. This paper symposium aims to highlight how and for whom different relationships affect adolescent mood during the pandemic. Paper one examines how relationship quality across, parents, peers, romantic partners, and siblings, buffers or exacerbates COVID19 adjustment in a longitudinal, multi-state (USA) sample of adolescents. Paper two takes a daily diary approach to assess the link between both parent and peer connection and social media use on adolescent positive and negative affect during the pandemic. Paper three assesses how social connection via social media use buffers the effects of loneliness in a longitudinal sample of adolescents from low-middle income backgrounds in Peru. The last paper uses preliminary data from early in the pandemic to randomly assign adolescents from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds to an emotion-theory or school-belonging intervention to assess how to improve adolescent mood. Under the unifying theme of how social relationships modulate adolescent adaptation during the pandemic, each paper uniquely approaches this theme by measuring different factors of the relationship (e.g., type of relationship, type of communication) and across diverse backgrounds (both country and SES). Across studies, adolescents’ mood was affected by COVID19, but modulated by different types of social relationships. This symposium will discuss the complexities of these relationships within each unique study’s design, including how we can use these findings to improve outcomes for adolescents during the pandemic.

Sub Unit

• Solicited Content: COVID-19 Related

Chair

• Jessica Flannery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Individual Presentations

• Adolescent Coping During COVID-19: The Role of Close Relationships - Presenting Author: Nicole Campione-Barr, University of Missouri - Columbia; Non-Presenting Author: Wendy M Rote, University of South Florida; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah Killoren, University of Missouri - Columbia; Non-Presenting Author: Amanda Rose, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Day-To-Day Fluctuations in Connectedness with Parents and Peers Predict Emotional Health in Girls During COVID-19 - Presenting Author: Jennifer S. Silk, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Lori Scott, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Non-Presenting Author: Stefanie Sequeira, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Celine Lu, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Emily Anne Hutchinson, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Cecile D Ladouceur, University of Pittsburgh

• Online Social Experiences and Loneliness for Peruvian Adolescents During Social Isolation in Response to COVID-19 - Presenting Author: Lucía Magis-Weinberg, University of Washington; Non-Presenting Author: Christopher Louis Gys, University of California - Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Estelle L. Berger, University of Oregon; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah E. Domoff, Central Michigan University; Non-Presenting Author: Ron E Dahl, University of California, Berkeley

• Testing Brief Online Psychosocial Interventions to Improve Mental Health in High Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Presenting Author: Jenalee Doom, University of Denver; Non-Presenting Author: Christopher Rozek, Stanford University; Non-Presenting Author: Kenia Rivera, University of Denver; Non-Presenting Author: Deborah Han, University of Denver; Non-Presenting Author: Ella Rushing, University of Denver