在COVID-19之前和期间,青少年心理健康问题的不同轨迹:增加,减少和稳定的证据
Coriena de Heer1, Catrin Finkenauer1, Gonneke Stevens1
1Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
PLOS mental health
|February 9, 2026
概括
随着COVID-19的流行,青少年的心理健康在不同个体之间产生了不同的影响. 一些青少年表现出稳定的高或增加的心理健康问题,通常与较低的社会支持有关.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- COVID-19 流行病和相关的公共卫生措施与青少年心理健康的负面影响有关.
- 青少年心理健康如何应对大流行病存在异质性,对这些不同的轨迹的理解有限.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行之前和期间,识别和描述青少年心理健康问题的不同轨迹.
- 探索与青少年不同心理健康轨迹相关的因素.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自1521名青少年 (平均年龄17.91) 的纵向数据,跨越四个时间点:大流行前 (2019年秋季) 和大流行期间 (2020年春季,2020年秋季,2021年秋季).
- 评估心理健康使用四个指标:情绪症状,行为问题,过度活动-注意力缺失问题和同行关系问题.
- 采用潜阶级增长分析,以确定心理健康问题的不同发展轨迹.
主要成果:
- 确定了不同的轨迹,包括稳定的低,稳定的高,增加和减少情绪,行为和过度活动-注意力缺失问题的模式.
- 在同行关系问题上观察到一个稳定的低和稳定的高轨迹.
- 患有严重心理健康问题的青少年报告说,家庭和朋友的支持水平较低.
- 性别,移民背景和社会经济地位与这些轨迹没有一致的联系.
结论:
- COVID-19大流行对青少年心理健康产生了多种影响,强调了需要个性化支持的需要.
- 面临压力状况的青少年的心理健康干预措施应根据不同轨迹群体中确定的特定需求量身定制.
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