This study examines the indirect effects of affect dysregulation and suppression on the associations between family stress from confinement, maltreatment, and adolescent mental health during COVID-19. We examined both adolescent and caregiver perspectives to yield a more well-rounded understanding of these associations than afforded in previous research. Using both adolescent (N = 809, M_age = 15.66) and caregiver (N = 578) samples, family stress from confinement, exposure to physical and psychological maltreatment, affect dysregulation and suppression, and youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms were measured in the summer of 2020, following three months of stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. Affect dysregulation partially accounted for the associations between family stress from confinement and psychological maltreatment on both internalizing and externalizing symptoms for youth and caregiver report. Suppression partially accounted for the associations between family stress and maltreatment on internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the youth sample, but only for internalizing symptoms in the caregiver sample. Understanding family predictors of adolescents’ mental health concerns and their underlying mechanisms, affect dysregulation and suppression, can inform mental health interventions during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

本研究探讨了情感失调和抑制对 COVID-19 期间因监禁、虐待和青少年心理健康造成的家庭压力之间关联的间接影响。我们检查了青少年和照顾者的观点，以对这些关联产生比以前的研究更全面的理解。使用青少年（N  = 809，M_年龄 = 15.66）和照顾者（N = 578) 样本、家庭压力、身体和心理虐待、影响失调和抑制以及青少年内化和外化症状在 2020 年夏季进行了测量，此前三个月因 COVID- 19. 影响失调部分解释了监禁引起的家庭压力和心理虐待对青少年和照顾者报告的内化和外化症状之间的关联。抑制部分解释了家庭压力和虐待对青少年样本中内化和外化症状的关联，但仅对照顾者样本中的内化症状起作用。了解青少年心理健康问题的家庭预测因素及其潜在机制，