Researchers tracked study subjects from toddlerhood into young adulthood to assess their mental health at different stages, and the impact the Covid-19 pandemic had on them.
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Identifying risk factors for elevated anxiety in young adults during Covid
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New York, Feb 13 : Researchers have identified early risk factors that predicted heightened anxiety in young adults during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The findings, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, could help predict who is at greatest risk of developing anxiety during stressful life events in early adulthood and inform prevention and intervention efforts. People differ greatly in how they handle stress, said researcher Daniel Pine from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience.
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A new study has identified early risk factors that predicted heightened anxiety in young adults during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The findings from the study, supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, could help predict who is at greatest risk of developing anxiety during stressful life events in early adulthood and inform prevention and intervention efforts.
The investigators examined data from 291 participants who had been followed from toddlerhood to young adulthood as part of a larger study on temperament and socioemotional development. The researchers found that participants who continued to show a temperament characteristic called behavioral inhibition in childhood were more likely to experience worry dysregulation in adolescence (age 15), which in turn predicted elevated anxiety during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when the participants were in young adulth
We can t abandon another generation of children to the media wasteland What was proposed years ago is needed now more than ever: to define public interest and teach media literacy.
By V. Susan Villani, Baltimore Sun (TNS) February 3, 2021 11:27am Text size Copy shortlink:
It has been 20 years since I wrote an article for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry titled, The Impact of Media on Children and Adolescents: A Ten Year Review of the Research. The article focused primarily on television, movies, music and music videos, and video games with only two paragraphs devoted to computers and the internet. Broadband internet and smartphones did not exist. The research reviewed was primarily survey data about how many hours children used media and studies about the possible effect of violent media leading to violent behavior. What was clear was that all media has the capacity to teac