ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Adolescent Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Friends

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Guadalupe Espinoza
    California State University, Fullerton
  • Hannah Hernandez
    California State University, Fullerton

Abstract

The current study examines if changes due to COVID-19 are related to adolescent stress and tests the protective role of friends among an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents (N=992).  Online friend communication and friend support were found to protect adolescents from increased stress stemming from negative COVID-19 changes.

Friendship