Concerns about the COVID‐19 Pandemic Among Justice‐Involved and Low‐Income Youth
Concerns about the COVID‐19 Pandemic Among Justice‐Involved and Low‐Income Youth
复制标题
DOI：
10.1111/jfcj.12209
复制
发表时间：
2021-12
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
Caitlin Cavanagh;Isabella Clough;A. Thomas
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Caitlin Cavanagh;Isabella Clough;A. Thomas
COVID-19大流行给青少年带来了巨大的变化和压力。然而，对年轻人知之甚少？有关COVID-19疫情的关注。这在受这一流行病严重影响的青年中尤其如此？即，参与司法系统的青年、低收入青年和自认为地位低下的青年。来自社区的青年、缓刑青年和被监禁青年完成了一项调查，描述了他们对COVID-19三个关注领域的关注：经济、社会关注和COVID-19本身。结果表明，在经济问题方面，被监禁青年比缓刑青年或社区青年更关心他们在需要时找到工作的能力（考虑到性别和家庭收入），更关心粮食安全（考虑到性别和主观社会地位）。关于社会问题，与社区青年相比，被监禁青年和缓刑青年都认为，由于这一流行病，他们与家庭成员的关系质量下降了（考虑到性别和收入），而被监禁青年只认为他们的友谊质量下降了（考虑到性别和主观社会地位）。关于对COVID-19的担忧，没有观察到任何群体对COVID-19患病或死亡的差异，但无论司法系统状况如何，低收入青年比富裕青年更担心死于COVID-19。总体而言，研究报告表达了大流行期间最脆弱青年的关切。
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense change and stress among adolescents. Yet, little is known about youths? concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is particularly true among youth who have been highly impacted by the pandemic?namely, justice system-involved youth, low-income youth, and youth who consider themselves to be low status. Youth from the community, youth on probation, and incarcerated youth completed a survey describing their concerns related to COVID-19 across three concern domains: economic, social concerns, and COVID-19 itself. Results suggested that, with respect to economic concerns, incarcerated youth felt more concern about their ability to get a job if needed than youth on probation or community youth (accounting for gender and household income), and more concerned about food security (accounting for gender and subjective social status). With respect to social concerns, both incarcerated youth and youth on probation felt that the quality of their relationship with family members had decreased as a result of the pandemic, relative to community youth (accounting for gender and income), while incarcerated youth only felt that the quality of their friendships had decreased (accounting for gender and subjective social status). With respect to concerns about COVID-19, no group differences were observed about getting sick or dying from COVID-19, but low-income youth regardless of justice system status were more concerned about dying of COVID-19 than their affluent counterparts. Overall, the study gives voice to the concerns of the most vulnerable youth during the pandemic.