RT Article
T1 Roles of Family Stress, Maltreatment, and Affect Regulation Difficulties on Adolescent Mental Health During COVID-19
JF Journal of family violence
VO 37
IS 5
SP 787
OP 799
A1 Craig, Stephanie G.
A2 Robillard, Christina L.
A2 Turner, Brianna J.
A2 Ames, Megan E.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/180447861X
AB This study examines the indirect effects of affect dysregulation and suppression on the associations between family stress from confinement, maltreatment, and adolescent mental health during COVID-19. We examined both adolescent and caregiver perspectives to yield a more well-rounded understanding of these associations than afforded in previous research. Using both adolescent (N = 809, Mage = 15.66) and caregiver (N = 578) samples, family stress from confinement, exposure to physical and psychological maltreatment, affect dysregulation and suppression, and youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms were measured in the summer of 2020, following three months of stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. Affect dysregulation partially accounted for the associations between family stress from confinement and psychological maltreatment on both internalizing and externalizing symptoms for youth and caregiver report. Suppression partially accounted for the associations between family stress and maltreatment on internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the youth sample, but only for internalizing symptoms in the caregiver sample. Understanding family predictors of adolescents’ mental health concerns and their underlying mechanisms, affect dysregulation and suppression, can inform mental health interventions during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
K1 Family Stress
K1 Mental Health
K1 Suppression
K1 Affect dysregulation
K1 Maltreatment
DO 10.1007/s10896-021-00320-2