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Objective <p>To examine the association between COVID-19 pandemic worries and academic resilience among adolescents, and to assess whether depressive symptoms, adverse experiences, and social protective factors help explain this relationship and under what conditions it is strongest.</p> Methods <p>Cross-sectional survey data were collected from adolescents (ages 12–17; <i>N</i> = 2,584) in grades 7, 9, and 11 from a county in Central New York, United States (April–May 2022). Pandemic worries, academic resilience, depressive symptoms, adverse experiences, and social protective factors were scored and rescaled using the percent of the maximum possible. Analyses were conducted in RStudio using the PROCESS macro (version 5.0 for R) with 5,000 bootstrap resamples. Serial mediation and moderated mediation models were estimated while adjusting for age, gender (male vs. not male), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) status, and primary language spoken at home. No race information was available.</p> Results <p>In the serial mediation model, pandemic worries were associated with lower academic resilience, with a direct effect (b = − 0.0457, 95% CI [− 0.0754, − 0.0159]) and a significant total indirect effect (b = − 0.1335, 95% CI [− 0.1514, − 0.1147]). The largest specific indirect pathway was operated through depressive symptoms (b = − 0.0983, 95% CI [− 0.1157, − 0.0813]). In the moderated mediation model, depressive symptoms predicted lower academic resilience (b = − 0.2583, <i>p</i> &lt; .01), and the indirect effect through depression varied by social protective factors (index of moderated mediation b = − 0.0007, 95% CI [− 0.0014, − 0.0001]). Being able to turn to parents with a problem showed the strongest positive association with academic resilience (b = 0.471, 95% CI [0.248, 0.694]).</p> Conclusions <p>Pandemic worries were associated with lower academic resilience in adolescents, primarily through elevated depressive symptoms. School safety and parent or caregiver support were the protective factors most consistently linked to lower depression and greater academic resilience, highlighting the need for school- and family-based interventions that combine academic support, accessible mental health resources, and strengthened protective supports for students under heightened stress.</p>

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A mediation analysis of academic resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic worries

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    2026年7月10日

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  • Patricia Roach,
  • Jerome Niyirora,
  • Joanne Joseph

摘要

Objective

To examine the association between COVID-19 pandemic worries and academic resilience among adolescents, and to assess whether depressive symptoms, adverse experiences, and social protective factors help explain this relationship and under what conditions it is strongest.

Methods

Cross-sectional survey data were collected from adolescents (ages 12–17; N = 2,584) in grades 7, 9, and 11 from a county in Central New York, United States (April–May 2022). Pandemic worries, academic resilience, depressive symptoms, adverse experiences, and social protective factors were scored and rescaled using the percent of the maximum possible. Analyses were conducted in RStudio using the PROCESS macro (version 5.0 for R) with 5,000 bootstrap resamples. Serial mediation and moderated mediation models were estimated while adjusting for age, gender (male vs. not male), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) status, and primary language spoken at home. No race information was available.

Results

In the serial mediation model, pandemic worries were associated with lower academic resilience, with a direct effect (b = − 0.0457, 95% CI [− 0.0754, − 0.0159]) and a significant total indirect effect (b = − 0.1335, 95% CI [− 0.1514, − 0.1147]). The largest specific indirect pathway was operated through depressive symptoms (b = − 0.0983, 95% CI [− 0.1157, − 0.0813]). In the moderated mediation model, depressive symptoms predicted lower academic resilience (b = − 0.2583, p < .01), and the indirect effect through depression varied by social protective factors (index of moderated mediation b = − 0.0007, 95% CI [− 0.0014, − 0.0001]). Being able to turn to parents with a problem showed the strongest positive association with academic resilience (b = 0.471, 95% CI [0.248, 0.694]).

Conclusions

Pandemic worries were associated with lower academic resilience in adolescents, primarily through elevated depressive symptoms. School safety and parent or caregiver support were the protective factors most consistently linked to lower depression and greater academic resilience, highlighting the need for school- and family-based interventions that combine academic support, accessible mental health resources, and strengthened protective supports for students under heightened stress.