In the United States, it is estimated that more than 5.4 million children and adolescents under age 18 provide care for adult family members who are aging or have a chronic illness, disability, or other health conditions that require assistance. However, little is known about how providing care to the family during childhood and adolescence impacts youth development. We examined whether caregiving as a youth is associated with emotional challenges, peer difficulties, course grades, and physical health risk behaviors. A large, diverse sample of middle and high school students in Florida completed the first systematic school-based survey in the U.S. to date to count caregiving youth (N = 10,880; 52% female; Mage = 14.40, 40% Latinx). Youth reported the amount of caregiving they provided to the family each week, in addition to items reflecting their emotional challenges (e.g., suicidality), peer difficulties (e.g., experiences of conflict or victimization), academic course grades, and health risk behaviors (e.g., diet, physical activity, sleep). We found that Latinx and Black youth provided higher levels of caregiving to the family compared to youth from White non-Latinx, Asian, or Other ethnicities. Caregiving was associated with more emotional challenges, more peer difficulties, and lower course grades for all groups. In addition, providing caregiving was associated with a less healthy diet among older youth and sleeping less than 8 hr per night among White non-Latinx youth. These findings highlight a need to support caregiving youth and their families via policies and institutional supports. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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儿童和青少年的家庭照料：情绪、社会、身体和学业风险以及个体差异。

在美国，估计有超过 540 万名 18 岁以下的儿童和青少年为年迈或患有慢性病、残疾或其他需要帮助的健康状况的成年家庭成员提供护理。然而，关于在童年和青春期为家庭提供照料如何影响青年发展，我们知之甚少。我们研究了青年时期的照顾是否与情绪挑战、同伴困难、课程成绩和身体健康风险行为有关。佛罗里达州大量多样化的初中和高中学生样本完成了美国迄今为止的第一个系统的基于学校的调查，以统计照顾青年的人数（N = 10,880；52% 为女性；Mage = 14.40，40% 为拉丁裔）。青少年报告了他们每周为家庭提供的照料量，除了反映他们的情绪挑战（例如，自杀倾向）、同伴困难（例如，冲突或受害经历）、学术课程成绩和健康风险行为（例如，饮食、身体活动、睡眠）的项目。我们发现，与来自非拉丁裔、亚裔或其他种族的白人青年相比，拉丁裔和黑人青年为家庭提供了更高水平的照顾。看护与所有群体的更多情绪挑战、更多同伴困难和更低的课程成绩有关。此外，提供看护与年长青年的健康饮食较差以及非拉丁裔白人青年每晚睡眠不足 8 小时有关。这些调查结果强调需要通过政策和机构支持来支持照顾青年及其家庭。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。