Daily Parenting and Adolescent Maladjustment: A Two‐Wave Multi‐Informant Daily Diary Study Before and During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic posed major challenges to parent–adolescent relationships under global stressors. Scant research has examined changes in the daily links between parenting behaviors and adolescent maladjustment before and after the onset of the pandemic. This study investigated the within‐day associations between two parenting behaviors—positive parenting and psychological control—and three adolescent maladjustments—conduct problems, emotional problems, and negative affect—before and during COVID‐19 through a two‐wave multi‐informant month‐long daily diary study. Methods A total of 3041 daily observations from 30 parent–adolescent dyads collected in Canada (adolescents: M = 14.3, 39% female, 42% White; parents: M = 43.5, 72% female, 42% White) were assessed before (2019, n observation = 778 and 772, for adolescents and parents, respectively) and during (2022, n observation = 737 and 754) the pandemic. Results Positive parenting and conduct problems decreased, while emotional problems increased from before to during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Multi‐level modeling showed that positive parenting was negatively linked with conduct problems and negative affect on the same day, whereas psychological control was positively linked with conduct problems and negative affect on the same day. Based on adolescent‐reports, the onset of the pandemic suppressed the negative relation between positive parenting and negative affect, and amplified the positive relation between psychological control and emotional problems. Conclusions These findings provide crucial evidence for changes in the daily links between parenting behaviors and adolescent maladjustment from before to during the pandemic. Family‐based interventions should target daily parenting behaviors during periods of stress and uncertainty to promote adolescent adjustment.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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