Parental and Adolescents ’ Anxiety during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Rural China: The role of Parent-child Communication

ConclusionsDuring the COVID-19 epidemic, parents ’ anxiety was related to adolescents’ anxiety. In addition, parent-child communication plays a moderating role in the above relationship. These findings emphasize the importance of implementing more psycho-education programs that specifically target parents’ emotion regulation and effective co mmunication abilities to ameliorate the psychopathological symptoms of parents and their children.
Source: Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma - Category: Child Development Source Type: research