Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance and emotional well‐being before and amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: A pilot measurement burst study.

FAMILY support; HISPANIC American youth; MEXICAN Americans; AFFECT (Psychology); MULTILEVEL models

This study examined Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance (assistance day, assistance time, language brokering) in relation to their daily affect and investigated whether the associations changed following the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Two waves of 14‐day daily diary data collected from 13 18‐year‐old Latinx adolescents (ndays = 284; 77% Mexican American, 77% female) before and amid the pandemic were analyzed using multilevel modeling. Three main findings emerged: (1) assisting the family on a given day was associated with higher levels of same‐day positive affect both before and during COVID‐19, and with lower levels of negative affect during COVID‐19; (2) longer than usual family assistance time was associated with higher levels of same‐day positive affect and lower levels of negative affect only during COVID‐19; (3) language brokering on a given day was associated with higher levels of same‐day positive affect both before and during COVID‐19. These findings suggest a positive link between daily family assistance and Latinx youth's daily emotional well‐being, particularly during the COVID‐19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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