skip to main content
Special Issue

Family Conversations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Developmental Psychology
October 2026
(Vol.62, No.10)
ISBN:
979-8-90219-015-8
Item #
2146215
Format
PDF

Special Issue PDF
$24.95

APA Style leaf logo Cite This Webpage in APA Style
American Psychological Association. (2026). Family Conversations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/dev/family-conversations-context-covid19

Table of contents

View the table of contents with abstracts on APA PsycNet

Introduction

Articles

  • Understanding Adolescents’ Family Communication During COVID-19: An Ecological Momentary Design Study
    Shedrick L. Garrett, Kaitlyn Burnell, Jolien Trekels, Mitchell J. Prinstein, and Eva H. Telzer
  • Parent–Adolescent Conversations About Mental Health and Well-Being Shaped Adolescents’ Anxiety/Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Joanna Peplak, J. Zoe Klemfuss, Danhua Zhu, Deborah Z. Kamliot, and Tuppett M. Yates
  • Correlates and Influences of Chinese Parental Communication About the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Parental Burnout
    Tianying Cai, Zexi Zhou, Beiming Yang, Feiyu Wang, Bin-Bin Chen, and Yang Qu
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Stress and Child Adjustment: Examining the Moderating Role of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Pandemic Conversational Style
    Jennifer G. Bohanek, Cory R. Platts, Madeline M. Patrick, Nanxi Xu, Tara Lottes, Evan Reichard, Chase O’Neal, Amanda Bennett, Anna Blue, Halley Felty, and Ashley M. Groh
  • “I’m Always Fighting the Coronavirus Because It’s Dangerous to My Family”: Children’s Agency, Resilience, and Role in the Family During COVID-19 in Israel
    Or Perah Midbar Alter and Maya Raphael
  • Mother–Child Reminiscing of Emotional Events During the Pandemic: The Role of Changing Family Relationships and Maternal Prepandemic Depression
    Xin Feng, Yihui Gong, Meingold Hiu-ming Chan, Karis Inboden, and Qi Wang
  • Family Communication and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Renee Lamoreau, Anna Wilson, Allison Pequet, Hilary Skov, and Sarah A. O. Gray
  • Parent Conversations With Young Children: Implications for Child Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Shannon E. Dier, Rachel B. Thibodeau-Nielsen, Francisco Palermo, Alaina Dooley, María Fernanda Rueda-Posada, and Rachel E. White
  • Stability and Change in Mother–Child Reminiscing Following Intervention: Pandemic and Reminiscing and Emotion Training Influences
    Kristin Valentino, Katherine Edler, Karen P. Jacques, Jennie M. Boulus, and Lijuan Wang
  • “Washing Our Hands Is a Superpower”: Parent–Child Conversations About COVID-19 Are Longitudinally Associated With Children’s Social–Emotional Adjustment and Their Conceptualizations of the Pandemic
    Jenna E. Finch, Emily J. Starr, Kimia Akhavein, and Holly Hatton
  • Children’s Mental Health and Mother–Child Elaborative Reminiscing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights From Estonian and German Middle-Class Families
    Pirko Tõugu, Lisa Schröder, and Tiia Tulviste
  • Sibling Disclosure and Adolescents’ Coping From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
    Weimiao Zhou, Shawn D. Whiteman, Aryn M. Dotterer, Leslie Page, Sarfaraz Serang, Sahitya Maiya, Jennifer L. Maggs, Brian C. Kelly, and Sarah A. Mustillo
  • Profiles of Parent-Reported Family Communication About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Family Predictors and Child Mental Health Correlates
    Angela D. Evans, Victoria W. Dykstra, Jonathan S. Comer, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Tara S. Peris, Donna B. Pincus, and Lindsay C. Malloy

Commentary

  • Family Communication and Child Outcome During the Pandemic
    Robyn Fivush

Other