Reported improvement in adolescents' mental state during a pandemic of the new coronavirus
It has been reported that the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has caused many people to become
Teens in Quarantine: Mental Health, Screen Time, and Family Connection
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How Teens Handled Quarantine --The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/how-teens-handled-quarantine/616695/
Why COVID-19 quarantine helped teen mental health, though adults struggled more --Deseret News
https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/10/13/21513309/covid-19-quarantine-teens-mental-health-jean-twenge-depression-loneliness-byu-family-studies
Measures such as pandemics and the accompanying blockades of cities have had a significant impact on daily life, restricting people from contacting close friends and long-distance travel, and suffering significant financial losses in industries such as restaurants. It was. Not only adults have been affected, but students are also exposed to many changes, such as remote lessons and the inability to meet friends.
So, a research team at Brigham Young University , San Diego State University , and the Institute for Family Studies in the United States surveyed 1523 teenagers living in the United States to find out how teenagers reacted during the pandemic. The we.
From May to July 2020, the research team surveyed teenagers about 'mental health,' 'time spent with family,' 'sleeping habits,' 'use of technology,' and 'opinions on protests against racial discrimination.' The we. Of these, mental health was evaluated on four scales: 'dissatisfaction with life,' 'unhappiness,' 'depression,' and 'loneliness.'
Comparing the results of this survey with the results of the 2018 survey on teenager's mental health, `` Teenager's mental health has not deteriorated during the pandemic, but has improved in some aspects. It turned out that.
This is a diagram showing the results of the 2018 survey on mental health and the results of the survey during the period of school during the pandemic and the summer vacation period. You can see that the “loneliness” indicated by the black line and the “depression” indicated by the black dashed line have decreased significantly during the pandemic compared to 2018. On the other hand, the yellow line 'Dissatisfaction with life' and the yellow dashed line 'Unhappiness' are not much different from 2018 during the pandemic.
Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University who led the study, said that pandemics further worsen teenagers'mental health as teenagers' mental health has deteriorated rapidly over the past five to six years. He said he expected it to be possible. The research team speculates that 'the change in lifestyle due to the pandemic' may be the reason for the relatively positive changes in teenager's mental health during the pandemic.
The first reason the research team cites is 'changes in sleep habits.' In a 2018 survey, 55% of teenagers said they usually slept for more than 7 hours, but in a survey of the duration of a pandemic school, 84% of teenagers actually slept for 7 hours. He answered that he was sleeping. The reason for this is believed to be that during the pandemic, the school switched to online lessons, causing students to sleep late for their morning commute.
In addition, the fact that many workers worked from home during the pandemic increased the amount of time teenagers spend with their families is also believed to have mitigated the negative impact of the pandemic. Fifty-six percent of teenagers said they had more conversations with their parents during the pandemic than before, and 54% said that their families had more frequent dinners with them. I spent more time with them, 'said 46%.
Perhaps the most striking result, the research team points out, was that 68% of teenagers said they 'closed their families during the pandemic.' Only 15% of teenagers who said their family distance was shortened during the pandemic experienced a decline in mental health, compared to 27% of teenagers who did not say their family distance was shortened. Reported a decline in mental health.
Twenge said, 'There is a general perception that'teenagers don't want to spend time with their parents', and it's true that friendships are certainly important, but they're with their parents. We want intimacy. It was, in a sense, one of the few benefits of a pandemic that revealed this fact. '
A non-mental health result that the research team has focused on is the use of technology by teenagers during a pandemic. Since it was not possible to meet friends during the pandemic, it was expected that the use of social media would increase dramatically, but it was said that the use of social media had decreased compared to 2018.
While spending less time on text messages, social media and games, teenagers spend more time chatting with friends and watching videos and movies. Twenge speculates that the use of negative social media has decreased during the pandemic and the incidence of cyberbullying has also decreased.
In addition, 53% of teenagers in this survey said that they 'feel that they have become stronger and more resilient in their pandemic experience.' This shows that teenagers who have experienced the special situation of a pandemic feel their growth.
Of course, teenagers were also reported to have felt the negative effects of the pandemic. Twenty-nine percent said they 'know who was diagnosed with COVID-19,' 27% said 'parents were unemployed due to a pandemic,' and teenagers worried about their daily diet and family cash flow. Was not a few. Teenagers with such anxiety were more likely to have a more depressed mental health than otherwise. Although the pandemic has shown an overall improvement in teenager mental health, the research team argued that efforts to support teenagers are still important.
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