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Resilience to COVID-19: Socioeconomic Disadvantage Associated With Positive Caregiver–Youth Communication and Youth Preventative Actions

“…While worry levels were higher among families with family-level socioeconomic disadvantage (Figure 3A), supporting our hypotheses, families with greater family-and neighborhood-level disadvantage reported more caregiver-youth discussion on ways to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (Figure 4), more frequent supportive and transparent discussions about COVID-19 between caregivers and their children (Figure 5), and more frequent youth preventative actions (Figure 6). While these latter results did not support our hypotheses, they do corroborate the literature reflecting greater adaptive coping strategies in the presence of more environmental stressors (21)(22)(23)(24)(25). Individuals living in high-stress environments with more disadvantage may thus be more adept at coping with future crises [see (52)].…”

“…Previous research has shown that such hardship and risk factors do not preclude adaptive coping and resilience in these populations (21). In contrast, environmental stressors, such as the stresses of economic hardship (22), may even promote greater use of coping and resilience strategies (23)(24)(25). Accordingly, in the context of COVID-19 (26), the aforementioned intersecting economic and health burdens highlight the importance of how children and families emotionally and behaviorally respond to manage challenging circumstances and reduce risk.…”

Coping with COVID-19 stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in a diverse sample of U.S. adults

“…These individuals are forced to cope with the pandemic against a backdrop of systemic inequalities, disenfranchisement from the healthcare system, and increased risk of contracting COVID-19 (Yancy, 2020). There may also be cultural differences in the ways that individuals of different races and ethnicities in the U.S., including Black and Hispanic, cope with COVID-19 stress that may influence the association between coping strategies and levels of anxiety, depression and other problems (Brantley et al, 2002;Hill & Hoggard, 2018;Weiss et al, 2017). Furthermore, recent studies indicate that lower income Americans have experienced greater mental health impacts of COVID-19, suggesting the need to examine income-related differences in stress and coping (McGinty et al, 2020).…”

Posttraumatic stress in organizations: Types, antecedents, and consequences

“…There are many demographic, personality, coping-strategy, and social variables that determine an individual's resilience. For instance, personal income has been shown to be positively associated with resilience following a traumatic event (Brantley, O'Hea, Jones, & Mehan, 2002;Gul & Karanci, 2017;Leon, Hyre, Ompad, Desalvo, & Muntner, 2007). Higher levels of education and younger age appear to lower an individual's risk of developing PTSD (Davidson, Hughes, Blazer, & George, 1991).…”