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Maternal Anxiety Symptoms and Chinese Adolescents' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Adolescents' Self-Compassion

Tong Zhou; Xiaohua Bian; Kening Zhang; Shanyun Zheng; Yinuo Lin; Hong Zheng; Junsheng Liu; Julia Finan

Originally published 2022-04-08 · Frontiers in Psychiatry
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.837846 ↗

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What lets my teenager talk about worry without feeling responsible for mine?

The authors examine young people’s self-compassion in the context of maternal anxiety.

Who was studied?

Chinese adolescents and families studied during the COVID-19 pandemic

Age / stage: Adolescence

Read with three questions

  1. How did the authors investigate young people’s self-compassion in the context of maternal anxiety?
  2. What other family or child characteristics could account for the observed pattern?
  3. Can the data distinguish the adolescent’s self-compassion from shared exposure to pandemic-related difficulties?

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A pandemic-era family study cannot treat anxiety or self-compassion as if they were experimentally assigned.

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Tong Zhou; Xiaohua Bian; Kening Zhang; Shanyun Zheng; Yinuo Lin; Hong Zheng; Junsheng Liu; Julia Finan (2022). Maternal Anxiety Symptoms and Chinese Adolescents' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Adolescents' Self-Compassion Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.837846

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