Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19

Andrews, Jack L; Foulkes, Lucy; Blakemore, Sarah Jayne

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.001

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“…At the practical level, interventions aimed at reducing health and legal risk behaviours should recognise the importance of concerns surrounding social risks. One promising approach is to focus on peer-led interventions, which work to influence social norms surrounding unhealthy or illegal behaviours [34]. This approach encourages healthy behaviours by reducing the social risk of being ostracised by peers.…”

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Amplified Concern for Social Risk in Adolescence: Development and Validation of a New Measure

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In adolescence, there is a heightened propensity to take health risks such as smoking, drinking or driving too fast. Another facet of risk taking, social risk, has largely been neglected. A social risk can be defined as any decision or action that could lead to an individual being excluded by their peers, such as appearing different to one’s friends. In the current study, we developed and validated a measure of concern for health and social risk for use in individuals of 11 years and over (N = 1399). Concerns for both health and social risk declined with age, challenging the commonly held stereotype that adolescents are less worried about engaging in risk behaviours, compared with adults. The rate of decline was steeper for social versus health risk behaviours, suggesting that adolescence is a period of heightened concern for social risk. We validated our measure against measures of rejection sensitivity, depression and risk-taking behaviour. Greater concern for social risk was associated with increased sensitivity to rejection and greater depressed mood, and this association was stronger for adolescents compared with adults. We conclude that social risks should be incorporated into future models of risk-taking behaviour, especially when they are pitted against health risks.

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“…However, current measures to reduce the spread of Corona Virus Disease 2019 , such as home lockdown and social distancing, radically reduce adolescents' opportunities to engage in peer relations outside their household (Andrews et al, 2020;Orben et al, 2020). Whereas children are largely unaffected by COVID-19 in terms of infectious morbidity and mortality, dealing with lockdown and quarantine may have negative effects on the wellbeing of children (Jiao et al, 2020).…”

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Perceived stress as mediator for longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on wellbeing of parents and children

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Whereas children are physically less affected by the COVID-19 disease, dealing with lockdown may have negative effects on their wellbeing. At the same time, the lockdown might also have positive effects for families, as it might facilitate parent-child bonding. One important factor that may influence the direction of these effects is perceived stress in children and parents. Using a longitudinal twin design, we investigated how perceived stress influenced COVID-19 lockdown induced changes in wellbeing of parents (psychological symptoms and overreactivity) and children (internalizing and externalizing behavior). A total of 106 parents and 151 children (10-13-year-old, 47% girls, majority middle-high SES and Caucasian) enrolled in the longitudinal L-CID study filled in questionnaires during lockdown and data were combined with data of previous years. We report a significant increase in parental psychological symptoms and a decrease in parental overreactivity across time. Longitudinal child measures showed a decrease in internalizing and externalizing behavior, which seemed decelerated by the COVID-19 lockdown. Perceived stress was a significant mediator of changes in parental psychological symptoms: Parents who reported more psychological symptoms prior to the lockdown experienced more stress during the lockdown, which in turn was associated with an increase in psychological symptoms. Similar results were found for children’s externalizing behavior. Results further showed that perceived stress in children was associated with negative coping strategies, parental overreactivity and parental psychological symptoms. These results suggest that children in families with (a history of) parental psychological symptoms and overreactivity might be at risk for negative consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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“…Online social influence has a significant impact on youths' behavior. Concerning students' mental health and online support, the impact can be more effective when peers (e.g., gatekeepers) start the conversation (Andrews et al, 2020). Besides being able to start the conversation, gatekeepers must be able to early identify and deal with mental health issues, understanding and stratifying risks in order to refer to proper assistance, preventing emergency mental health care when unnecessary.…”

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Peer support intervention as a tool to address college students’ mental health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

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Bassols

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Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19

Cited by 228 publications

References 15 publications

Amplified Concern for Social Risk in Adolescence: Development and Validation of a New Measure

Amplified Concern for Social Risk in Adolescence: Development and Validation of a New Measure

Perceived stress as mediator for longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on wellbeing of parents and children

Peer support intervention as a tool to address college students’ mental health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

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