Identifying characteristics of adolescents with persistent loneliness during COVID-19: A multi-country eight-wave longitudinal study
Identifying characteristics of adolescents with persistent loneliness during COVID-19: A multi-country eight-wave longitudinal study
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识别 COVID-19 期间持续孤独的青少年的特征：一项多国八波纵向研究
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10.1002/jcv2.12206
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2023
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Riddleston L
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Riddleston L
研究背景青年人的孤独感增强。虽然在这个发展阶段的孤独感可能来自社会关系中典型的年龄剧变，但关于年轻人经历高度和持续孤独的程度，以及重要的是，谁最容易受到这些经历的影响，几乎没有数据。利用与COVID-19大流行相关的广泛的社会限制，这在许多人中引发了孤独感，我们旨在研究青少年在不同时间的孤独状况和人口统计学预测因素方法年龄在12-18岁的参与者被招募到三个地点的多波研究（N= 1039）中（英国、以色列和印度）在大流行期间的8个时间点每两周完成一次3项孤独感测量。（1）低稳定（33%），（2）低增长（19%），（3）中度下降（17%），（4）中度稳定（23%），（5）高增长（8%）。女性和年龄较大的青少年更有可能经历持续的高lonely.ConclusionsThese研究结果表明，需要采取干预措施，以减少青少年的孤独感，因为我们从大流行中出现，特别是对于那些被确定为处于最高风险的群体。
BackgroundElevated loneliness experiences characterise young people. While loneliness at this developmental juncture may emerge from age‐typical upheaval in social relationships, there is little data on the extent to which young people experience high and persistent levels of loneliness, and importantly, who is most vulnerable to these experiences. Using the widespread social restrictions associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, which precipitated loneliness in many, we aimed to examine adolescents' loneliness profiles across time and the demographic predictors (age, sex, and country) of more severe trajectories.MethodsParticipants aged 12–18 years, recruited into a multi‐wave study (N= 1039) across three sites (UK, Israel, and India) completed a 3‐item loneliness measure fortnightly across 8 timepoints during the pandemic.ResultsLatent class growth analysis suggested 5 distinct trajectories: (1) low stable (33%), (2) low increasing (19%), (3) moderate decreasing (17%), (4) moderate stable (23%), and (5) high increasing (8%). Females and older adolescents were more likely to experience persistently high loneliness.ConclusionsThese findings indicate a need for interventions to reduce loneliness in adolescents as we emerge from the pandemic, particularly for those groups identified as being at highest risk.