APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Stronger Together: Family and Peer Support for Black Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Élodie Audet
    McGill University
  • Julie Leboeuf
    McGill University
  • Anne Holding
    New York University
  • John Davids
    Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC)
  • Xiaoyan Fang
    Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC)
  • Koestner Richard
    McGill University

Abstract

This study investigated how perceiving support from family or peers differentially impacted Black young adults’ psychological adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. Results proposes that family support relating to the pandemic, and peer support relating to the BLM, were associated with heightened psychological adjustment.

Cultural Diversity

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