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How do adolescents cope with challenges of the pandemic?
On the 16th of march 2020, the Swiss government officially decided on a lockdown due to the Corona pandemic. All shops, restaurants, bars, entertainment and leisure facilities were closed. Schools closed their doors for about two months and everyone was requested to stay at home.
This research projects investigates how adolescents were affected by these changes, how dangerous they perceived COVID-19, and how they coped with the challenges of not meeting their friends, learning from home, and being requested to stay at home.
We are specifically interested in:
identifying protective factors promoting positive development at the individual, dyadic, and school level
understanding changing patterns in friendship, peer and family relations
knowing whether complex situations like the pandemic affect adolecents' solidarity, fairness, and civic engagement
understanding how different regional strategies correlate with adolescent development
Broschuere_04_10.pdfSample
The first sample consists of adolescents in Switzerland (german-speaking Switzerland and Ticino) and Italy (n=2340) between 14 and 21 years. These adolescents filled in an online survey at two occasions: in spring 2020, during the first weeks of school closures / the lockdwon and in the fall 2020, five months after schools reopened.
The second sample consists of the child cohort from the COCON study. This sample, which is representative of German- and French-speaking Switzerland, has been surveyed at intervals of 3 years since the age of 6. During the lockdwon, the study participants were bout 21 years old (n = 792).
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Research team: Jeanine Grütter, Isabel Brünecke, Paola Citterio, Lena Dändliker, Fabienne Lochmatter, Leonie Graf, & Marlis Buchmann
Publications:
Brünecke, I., Citterio, P., Dändliker, L., Lochmatter, F., Buchmann, M., & Grütter, J. (2022). Adolescents’ coping with emotional and academic stressors related to COVID-19: The role of perceived teacher, friendship and parental support. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733683
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