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July 8, 2026Child Development

Reciprocal relations between parent–adolescent closeness and adolescent depressive symptoms across the pre-to-post COVID-19 pandemic

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XWXiaofang WengHFHuiting FangYAYe An

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Randomized trial examines closeness and depressive symptoms in adolescents, suggesting important dynamics in father-son relationships during the pandemic.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how parent-adolescent closeness correlates with depressive symptoms in adolescents before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Utilized three-wave longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Study collected in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
  • Analyzed responses from 841 girls and 939 boys to identify associations between closeness and depressive symptoms.
  • Employed bivariate latent change score models to assess the impact of gender and developmental age on the relationships.
  • Lower closeness predicted significant increases in depressive symptoms across both genders.
  • Higher depressive symptoms in adolescents led to greater decreases in closeness, specifically in father-son dynamics.
  • Findings suggest developmental age moderates the effects of these relationships.

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Weng et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a4dea63d2ea289ef62841f2https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag114
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