Many studies show that long-term exposure to stress events (e.g., COVID-19) have the potential to profoundly threaten social cognition and mental health among children and youth. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has lasted for nearly three years, places children and adolescents at higher risk of anxiety and depression, as a result of maintaining social distance, closing schools, and having online classes at home. It is likely to greatly affect young people’s social cognition (e.g., core beliefs, future time perception, self-concept, academic performance) and adverse mental health outcomes (e.g., less interpersonal interaction, poor sleep quality, mobile phone dependence, impulse shopping, aggression).
The adverse effects of the epidemic on young people have been focused on, for example, anxiety, depression, campus bullying, and poor academic performance, and scientific societies have a greater effort to find a more effective prevention and intervention strategy. However, some scholars believe that the COVID-19 crisis can bring disadvantages with opportunities for family cohesion and personal growth. They pay attention to young people's psychological resilience and social capital, besides physical exercise. This research topic further highlights the need to get a more comprehensive understanding of social cognition and mental health and its mechanism among children and youth.
The goal of the Research Topic is to provide a forum to improve research on the contribution of social cognition and mental health to health psychology and the development of protective and risk factors as well as to explore innovative psychosocial interventions in order to achieve beneficial impact on children and youth health and well-being.
We welcome submissions of the following topics, but are not limited to:
- Mental health literacy in children and young people;
- Gender/sex differences in social trust;
- Children and adolescents' social capital and identity development;
- Peer appraisal and adolescents' self-representation;
- Young females’ facial information cognition;
- Youth campus bullying and belief in a just world;
- College students' social media use and consumption cognition;
- Children and adolescents' psychological resilience and future cognition;
- Children and adolescents' perceived support, academic performance, and well-being;
- Children and youth’ social cognition and mental health intervention
Many studies show that long-term exposure to stress events (e.g., COVID-19) have the potential to profoundly threaten social cognition and mental health among children and youth. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has lasted for nearly three years, places children and adolescents at higher risk of anxiety and depression, as a result of maintaining social distance, closing schools, and having online classes at home. It is likely to greatly affect young people’s social cognition (e.g., core beliefs, future time perception, self-concept, academic performance) and adverse mental health outcomes (e.g., less interpersonal interaction, poor sleep quality, mobile phone dependence, impulse shopping, aggression).
The adverse effects of the epidemic on young people have been focused on, for example, anxiety, depression, campus bullying, and poor academic performance, and scientific societies have a greater effort to find a more effective prevention and intervention strategy. However, some scholars believe that the COVID-19 crisis can bring disadvantages with opportunities for family cohesion and personal growth. They pay attention to young people's psychological resilience and social capital, besides physical exercise. This research topic further highlights the need to get a more comprehensive understanding of social cognition and mental health and its mechanism among children and youth.
The goal of the Research Topic is to provide a forum to improve research on the contribution of social cognition and mental health to health psychology and the development of protective and risk factors as well as to explore innovative psychosocial interventions in order to achieve beneficial impact on children and youth health and well-being.
We welcome submissions of the following topics, but are not limited to:
- Mental health literacy in children and young people;
- Gender/sex differences in social trust;
- Children and adolescents' social capital and identity development;
- Peer appraisal and adolescents' self-representation;
- Young females’ facial information cognition;
- Youth campus bullying and belief in a just world;
- College students' social media use and consumption cognition;
- Children and adolescents' psychological resilience and future cognition;
- Children and adolescents' perceived support, academic performance, and well-being;
- Children and youth’ social cognition and mental health intervention
