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Direct linkAbigail R. Murdock; Michelle L. Rogers; Tracy L. Jackson; Karine Monteiro; Laura C. Chambers – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected adolescent mental health due to school closures, isolation, family loss/hardships, and reduced health care access. Methods: We compared adolescent mental health in Rhode Island before versus during the pandemic, separately among middle and high schoolers. This serial cross-sectional study used…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Middle School Students, High School Students, COVID-19
Layman, Hannah M.; Mann, Michael J.; Smith, Megan L.; Kogan, Steven M.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L. – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Young people who experience higher levels of social support from their schools and families have been shown to be less likely to develop symptoms of negative mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety. This raises questions concerning how young people's stress and psychological changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health
Cixin Wang; Ting Gao; Xueqian Cheng; Beilei Li – School Psychology, 2024
This study investigated the changes in social media use and cyber victimization before (November 2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020) among Chinese middle school students. It also examined the relation between cyber victimization and school adjustment overtime, and whether depressive symptoms mediated this relation and whether the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, COVID-19
Rebecca G. Mirick; James McCauley – School Psychology Review, 2025
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed in-person schools in March 2020, SOS Signs of Suicide shifted to a virtual program. This paper describes an evaluation of the acceptability of the online program by middle and high school students (N = 1196). Students generally responded favorably to virtual SOS. Although some were unsure, of those with an…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Suicide
Grace Skrzypiec; Mirella Wyra; Cigdem Topcu-Uzer; Iwona Sikorska; Damanjit Sandhu; Eva M. Romera; Dorit Olenik-Shemesh; Miguel Nery; Christián Denisse Navarro-Rodríguez; Kirill Khlomov; Melike Kavuk-Kalender; Tali Heiman; Annalisa Guarini; Eleni Didaskalou; Carmel Cefai; Antonella Brighi; Monica Bravo-Sanzana; Alexandra Bochaver; Sheri Bauman; Eleni Andreou; Ulil Amri – School Mental Health, 2024
As the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus spread across the world, countries took drastic measures to counter the disease by requiring their citizens to home self-isolate i.e., lockdown. While it was not known how young people would cope with the social distancing restrictions, there was concern that the lockdown would have a debilitating effect on youth…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Well Being
Mark J. Van Ryzin; Sabina Low; Cary J. Roseth; Dorothy Espelage – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2024
Mental health is a significant concern among young people, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, mental health problems can significantly reduce student performance in school, including both engagement and achievement. Both mental health problems and reduced student performance often arise due to "peer victimization," which…
Descriptors: Victims, Bullying, Stress Variables, Mental Health
Kathia Nieves – ProQuest LLC, 2024
During the 2020 pandemic, global governments imposed COVID-19 restrictions. Among the restrictions were K-12 school closures, which caused an abrupt change from in-person to virtual learning. These circumstances damaged students' mental health even after constraints were lifted. The problem was the socio-emotional learning (SEL) deficiency…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Mental Health
Stone, Glenn; Witzig, Tyler; McIntosh, Constance – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The paper examines the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on school-age children and their families. Changes to their daily lives were examined through the lens of their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. An analysis of current literature was conducted examining the emerging research on the pandemic's effects on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Pandemics, COVID-19
M. Blake Berryhill; Abby G. Horton; Stephanie L. Masters; Daniel R. Mack; Allison N. Cross; Jeff G. Parker; Joan M. Barth; Kristina L. McDonald – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with family adjustment, heightened adolescent mental health symptomology, and increased caregiver stress. The current study used a diverse sample of caregivers and early adolescents to examine the association between pandemic-related experiences, caregiver perceived stress, and adolescent mental health. Two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Adolescents, Child Caregivers
Chunyan Yang – School Psychology, 2024
Guided by the social-ecological diathesis-stress model, we examined the interactive influences of prepandemic bullying victimization and COVID-19 peer discrimination on Chinese American adolescents' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included 193 Chinese American adolescents from middle and high schools in the United States.…
Descriptors: Bullying, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health
Tara Ferland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the COVID-19 global pandemic students have been exposed to a multitude of stressors and disruptions to their every-day life. Mindfulness has been described in research as one tool to address anxiety and increase attention in young adolescent students (Goldin et al., 2008). This study's purpose was to understand the ways my seventh-grade…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students, Metacognition
Sarah Crittenden Fuller; Tom Swiderski; Camille Mikkelsen; Kevin C. Bastian – Grantee Submission, 2024
We examine effects of the pandemic on student attendance, course grades, and grade retention in North Carolina in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 using descriptive and regression analyses. We find each outcome worsened on average in 2020-2021, with larger changes at the high end of the absence distribution, the low end of the grade distribution, and among…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Attendance, Grades (Scholastic)
Garza Schuster, Jacquelyn Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study is positioned to contribute to our growing understanding of how COVID-19 has impacted our students and the individuals tasked with promoting their mental health and wellness. The overarching aim was to understand the lived experiences of middle school professional school counselors (PSCs) in addressing student mental health, during the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle Schools, School Personnel
Daniel R. Cohen; Sara McDaniel; John Lochman – School Psychology Review, 2025
Racial discrimination and the COVID-19 pandemic are important risk factors for negative mental health outcomes in children and adolescents, but few studies have examined the relation between these exposures and posttraumatic stress (PTS) in middle school students. The current study evaluated the association between pandemic exposure and perceived…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Middle School Students, At Risk Persons
De La Mora, Armando – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 epidemic created significant challenges in the field of education, especially for low socioeconomic Hispanic K-8 students. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the ways in which school closures impact school-aged children within the school environment and how school psychologists can identify and help support students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
