Introduction

Adolescents typically spend decreasing amounts of time with family members, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed this pattern for many youth. The objective of the current study was to better understand adolescents' perceived change in family relationship quality, and how these perceptions were related to psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for more traditional measures of family relationship quality. Understanding how adolescents perceived change in relationship quality with family members during the pandemic offers novel insight into adolescents’ relationships with their families and psychosocial functioning during this period.

Method

A sample of Canadian adolescents (N = 605, ages 14 to 18, 53% girls), was employed to examine patterns of adolescents’ perceived change in relationship quality with parents and siblings since the start of the pandemic, accounting for relationship quality, pandemic-related characteristics, and demographic variables.

Results

Four latent profiles were identified: youth who perceived (1) low change, (2) improvement only, (3) moderate instability and (4) high instability in relationship quality. Higher perceived instability was associated with poorer functioning, with youth who reported only improvement reporting the highest overall level of functioning.

Conclusions

Adolescent perceptions of change in relationship quality were heterogeneous, and contribute to psychosocial functioning over and above their general evaluations of relationship quality. In particular, youth who perceive considerable change in their relationships with siblings and parents may require additional support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

中文翻译：

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COVID-19 大流行期间的家庭关系质量：青少年对变化的看法的价值

 介绍

青少年与家人相处的时间通常会减少，但 COVID-19 大流行改变了许多青少年的这种模式。本研究的目的是更好地了解青少年对家庭关系质量的感知变化，以及这些感知如何与 COVID-19 大流行期间的心理社会功能相关，并考虑到更传统的家庭关系质量衡量标准。了解青少年在大流行期间如何看待与家庭成员的关系质量的变化，为了解这一时期青少年与家庭的关系和心理社会功能提供了新的见解。

 方法

采用加拿大青少年样本（ N = 605，年龄 14 至 18，其中 53% 是女孩）来研究自大流行开始以来青少年与父母和兄弟姐妹的关系质量的感知变化模式，考虑到关系质量、大流行-相关特征和人口统计变量。

 结果

确定了四种潜在特征：认为关系质量 (1) 变化较小、(2) 仅有所改善、(3) 中度不稳定和 (4) 关系质量高度不稳定的青少年。感知到的不稳定程度越高，功能越差，而仅报告有改善的年轻人则报告总体功能水平最高。

 结论

青少年对关系质量变化的看法各不相同，并且对心理社会功能的贡献超出了他们对关系质量的一般评估。特别是，那些认为与兄弟姐妹和父母的关系发生重大变化的青少年可能需要额外的支持来应对 COVID-19 大流行。