Adolescent coping and social media use moderated anxiety change during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adolescent coping and social media use moderated anxiety change during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1002/jad.12267
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发表时间：
2023-11
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Sarah Myruski;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Kristin A Buss
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作者：
Sarah Myruski;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Kristin A Buss
青春期是一个敏感的时期，在此期间，压力和社会干扰独特地有助于焦虑症状。青少年的应对策略（即，在2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间，避免和接近）可能与焦虑症状变化存在差异。此外，社交媒体使用（SMU）是无处不在的，可以作为一种途径，部署回避和/或方法应对。方法参与者包括265名青少年（年龄12-20岁; 55.8%女性，43.8%男性）和每个青少年的父母。在相隔约6个月的两个时间点，青少年报告SMU和应对策略，父母和青少年报告人口统计学信息和青少年的焦虑症状。数据是从2020年夏季到2021年春季在美国在线收集的。结果回避应对的增加预示着焦虑的增加，特别是当接近应对减少时。回避应对和SMU的减少与焦虑的减少一致。年龄较大的青少年表现出减少焦虑时，回避应对下降，SMU增加。结论应对策略和SMU预测了COVID-19大流行期间6个月内青少年焦虑症状变化的模式。结果强调，应对和SMU应在压力源的时间过程中的语境。
INTRODUCTION Adolescence is a sensitive period during which stressors and social disruptions uniquely contribute to anxiety symptoms. Adolescent's coping strategies (i.e., avoidance and approach) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be differentially related to anxiety symptom changes. Further, social media use (SMU) is ubiquitous and may serve as an avenue to deploy avoidant and/or approach coping. METHOD Participants included 265 adolescents (ages 12-20 years; 55.8% female, 43.8% male) and one parent per adolescent. At two time points separated by ~6 months, adolescents reported on SMU and coping strategies, and parents and adolescents reported demographic information and adolescents' anxiety symptoms. Data were collected online in the United States, from summer 2020 through spring 2021. RESULTS Increases in avoidant coping predicted increasing anxiety, particularly when approach coping decreased. Decreases in both avoidant coping and SMU coincided with decreasing anxiety. Older adolescents showed decreasing anxiety when avoidant coping declined and SMU increased. CONCLUSION Coping strategies and SMU predicted patterns of adolescent anxiety symptom change across 6 months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results highlight that coping and SMU should be contextualized within the time course of stressors.