COVID-19 Preventive Practices, Parent-Child Conflict, and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents.

Tong Zhou, Luyan Xu, Xiaohua Bian, Luhao Wei, Junsheng Liu

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tong ZhouSchool of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.

Luyan XuSchool of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

Xiaohua BianSchool of Educational Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou 450044, China.

Luhao WeiDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5229-4168

Junsheng LiuSchool of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 32500950the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund Project by the Ministry of Education 25YJC190033

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic affected adolescent mental health. However, the concurrent associations among adolescents' preventive practices, parent-child conflict, and depressive symptoms during the initial lockdown remain unclear. This cross-sectional study included 2558 adolescents (48.75% girls; M age = 13.06 years) from Zhengzhou, China, of whom 2543 were included in the analytic sample after cases missing age or class identifiers were excluded. All focal constructs were assessed once by adolescent self-report. Latent moderated mediation analyses showed that preventive practices were directly and negatively associated with depressive symptoms. A significant indirect association was observed through parent-child conflict such that greater engagement in preventive practices co-occurred with less parent-child conflict and fewer depressive symptoms. The negative direct association between preventive practices and depressive symptoms was stronger for boys, whereas the positive association between parent-child conflict and depressive symptoms was stronger for girls. However, these interaction terms added only ΔR

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adolescenceCOVID-19depressive symptomsgender differencesparent–child relationspreventive practices

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PMID42792453

DOI10.3390/bs16091654

PMCPMC13603774

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