Extensive research has demonstrated the transactional nature of parent-child psychopathology, with limited studies examining these effects during late adolescence and none, to our knowledge, longitudinally during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study examined the cross-lagged effects of parent and adolescent internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and the moderating role of avoidant coping. A sample of 291 adolescents (Age _mean = 18.27; 53% female; 61% White) and their parents rated their own anxiety and depressive symptoms and coping during the first two months following stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parent internalizing symptoms at the first assessment predicted adolescent internalizing symptoms at the second assessment. Adolescent avoidant coping style moderated this effect of parent internalizing symptoms on adolescent internalizing symptoms in the subsequent month, such that parent internalizing symptoms predicted child internalizing symptoms only among adolescents with moderate to high rates of avoidant coping. Follow-up analyses indicated different patterns when examining depressive and anxiety symptoms separately. The results highlight complex family dynamics between adolescents and their parents and begin to differentiate how individual characteristics impact the response to a significant life event such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

广泛的研究已经证明了亲子精神病理学的交易性质，只有有限的研究在青春期后期检查了这些影响，据我们所知，在 COVID-19 大流行期间没有纵向研究。目前的研究检查了 COVID-19 大流行期间父母和青少年内化症状的交叉滞后效应以及回避应对的调节作用。291 名青少年样本（年龄 _平均 = 18.27; 53% 女性；61% 的白人）和他们的父母在 COVID-19 大流行期间在家下订单后的头两个月内评估了自己的焦虑和抑郁症状以及应对方式。第一次评估中的父母内化症状预测了第二次评估中的青少年内化症状。青少年回避应对方式在随后的一个月中缓和了父母内化症状对青​​少年内化症状的影响，因此父母内化症状仅在中度至高回避应对率的青少年中预测儿童内化症状。在分别检查抑郁和焦虑症状时，后续分析表明存在不同的模式。