Adolescents experience increased problems, and also increased resilience as a result of COVID‐19

Abstract

Adolescents claim they have more behavioral problems, less social emotional skills, and are less prosocial because of COVID-19. A study found reductions in social emotional skills, prosocial behavior, and resilience scores. Still, the study found that the changes are not significant, and that changes in adolescents’ social emotional skills are negatively and significantly related to changes in internalized and externalized problems and positively and significantly related to changes in prosocial behavior and resilience. The implication is that adolescents who experienced larger development in social emotional learning also experienced more increase in resilience and prosocial behavior and a decrease in difficulties. [Martinsone B, et al. Adolescent social emotional skills, resilience and behavioral problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study in three European countries. Front Psychiatry 2022 Aug 1; 13:942692. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.942692.]