Longitudinal Changes in Adolescents' School Bonding During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Individual, Parenting, and Family Correlates.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • The current study examined changes in adolescents' school bonding from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic and its individual, parenting, and family-level correlates. Participants were two adolescents (50% male; Mage  = 14 years) and one parent (85% female; Mage  = 45 years) from 682 families (N = 2046) from an ongoing longitudinal study. Adolescents reported on their school bonding, stress, and coping, while parents reported on their involvement in adolescents' education and pandemic-related financial need. A two-wave latent change score model suggested that adolescents' school bonding decreased from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress and pandemic-related financial need served as risk factors, whereas coping and parental involvement served as protective factors against declines in adolescents' school bonding.
  • Authors

  • Maiya, Sahitya
  • Dotterer, Aryn M
  • Whiteman, Shawn D
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • September 2021
  • Published In

    Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • COVID-19
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pandemics
  • Parenting
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Schools
  • coping
  • financial need
  • parental involvement
  • school bonding
  • stress
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 808
  • End Page

  • 819
  • Volume

  • 31
  • Issue

  • 3