Immigrant Origin and Disability Increase Risk for Anxiety Among Youth During COVID-19: The Role of Unmet Needs for Support in Distance Learning and Family Conflicts

Shifting to distance learning due to COVID-19 may decrease teacher support and increase family conflicts, potentially increasing anxiety. Nevertheless, there is scarce information on this topic among disability and/or immigrant-origin groups. Thus, we investigated whether these minority groups reported more anxiety than the reference group —Finnish-origin youth without disabilities—and whether unmet needs for support in distance learning and family conflicts mediated differences in anxiety during the pandemic.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - Category: Child Development Authors: Tags: Original article Source Type: research