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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the extensive measures to prevent a further spread of the virus have had a major impact on the daily life of all citizens, including families with adolescent children. As in many other countries, children in the Netherlands could not attend school for several periods, had limited (face-to-face) contact with peers, and their structured leisure activities were often cancelled. Several previous studies showed the short-term effects of the pandemic during the first lockdown as well as heterogeneity in these effects. The current study builds on these results by investigating changes over a longer period (i.e., Fall 2019-Spring 2021). This study examines the longitudinal associations among COVID-19-related stress, parent-adolescent relationships (negative interaction and support), and mental health. Moreover, we will study whether personality traits predict the changes in stress, relationship quality and mental health throughout the pandemic. We will use latent change scores models with four waves of data from about 240 Dutch parents and adolescents (M age 11.4 years at wave 1) from the multi-informant study “InTransition”. |
