Resilience to COVID-19: Socioeconomic Disadvantage Associated With Positive Caregiver–Youth Communication and Youth Preventative Actions
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with larger COVID-19 disease burdens and pandemic-related economic impacts. We utilized the longitudinal Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study to understand how family- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic disadvantage relate to disease burden, family communication, and preventative responses to the pandemic in over 6,000 youth-caregiver dyads. Data were collected at three timepoints (May-August 2020). Here, we show that both family- and neighborhood-level disadvantage were associated with caregivers' reports of greater family COVID-19 disease burden, less perceived exposure risk, more frequent caregiver-youth conversations about COVID-19 risk/prevention and reassurance, and greater youth preventative behaviors. Families with more socioeconomic disadvantage may be adaptively incorporating more protective strategies to reduce emotional distress and likelihood of COVID-19 infection. The results highlight the importance of caregiver-youth communication and disease-preventative practices for buffering the economic and disease burdens of COVID-19, along with policies and programs that reduce these burdens for families with socioeconomic disadvantage.
Source: Frontiers in Public Health
Authors: Andrew T. Marshall, Daniel A. Hackman, Fiona C. Baker, Florence J. Breslin, Sandra A. Brown, Anthony Steven Dick, Marybel R. Gonzalez, Mathieu Guillaume, Orsolya Kiss, Krista M. Lisdahl, Connor J. McCabe, William E. Pelham, Chandni Sheth, Susan F. Tapert, Amandine Van Rinsveld, Natasha E. Wade, Elizabeth R. Sowell
Institutions: University of Southern California, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, SRI International, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, University of California San Diego, Florida International University, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Washington, University of Utah
Language: English
Topic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,950
Awards: G1020259976, G1058358382, G1363190437, G1510635755, G1548113041, G1569016918, G1742849658, G2715786902, G2998093352, G3156988136, G329278553, G3305455594, G343603955, G3438786812, G3563224455, Replicating Experimental Studies: Moving Beyond Undergraduate Student Samples, G3738900353, G3755973507, G3774909143, RAPID: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Development in the ABCD Cohort, G4066048162, G407593949, G4158548775, G4180929035, G4241744443, G469525291, G5002640097, G5081895789, G5139799579, G5264564855, G5418428649, G5926695431, G5976565686, G6077843296, G638286025, G6510595329, G6546238116, G6667231380, G6774021418, G687916792, G6887863799, G6922259526, G7271102572, G7534917452, G7626434999, G7626942172, G7652160222, G771167098, G8003134535, G815084465, G8281824583, G8336883286, G8377273181, G8558434156, G8679417706, G869166675, G8762821959, G8865478933, G9000006386, G9000008241, G9000034221, G9000042425, G9000046731, G9000061868, G9000068362, G9000108491, G9000112882, G9000113866, G9000163168, G9000202101, G9000205938, G9000241459, G9000286149, 9/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT U MICHIGAN, 17/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT UCLA, 8/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT CHLA, 6/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT OHSU, 21/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT WUSTL, 2/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT UMB, G923039674, G969279314
OpenAlex ID: W4211090440