Parental Worry About COVID-19 in Preschool Children’s Mothers During the Pandemic Waves: The Role of Maternal Negative Feelings and Parenting Styles

Yaffe, Yosi

doi:10.1007/s10995-023-03626-3

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“…In this normative and highly resourced sample, the relationship between EA and EPII neg indicates that mothers and their children mutually affected one another’s behavior in nuanced ways. Interestingly, prior self-report studies have suggested that maternal hostility (not measured using EA) increased during the pandemic [ 62 , 63 ]. Our finding that increases in EPII neg lead to decreases in sensitivity and nonhostility not only align with these findings but provide a direct comparison between observational data and individual reported experiences of COVID-19-related stress.…”

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Mother–Child and Father–Child Emotional Availability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dungan,

Lincoln,

Aichele

et al. 2023

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While the body of literature on COVID-19’s impacts on family life is rapidly expanding, most studies are based entirely on self-report data, leaving a critical gap in observational studies of parent–child interactions. The goal of this study was to evaluate parent–child relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic using the observational emotional availability (EA) construct. Parents (n = 43) were assessed using the Epidemic–Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII), the Flourishing Scale (FLS), and the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) questionnaires. The subcategories of the EPII were used to develop an EPII negative and an EPII positive for each parent. EA (sensitivity, structuring, nonhostility, nonintrusiveness, child responsiveness, and child involvement) was coded from filmed parent–child interactions. Separate hierarchical multiple regressions (HMRs) were run to evaluate each of the variables of interest (EPII and FLS) as predictive of EA. Child age (M = 6, SD = 4.68) and ACEs were added in subsequent steps for EPII negative and positive if the initial step was significant. For mothers (n = 25), results demonstrated EPII negative as a significant predictor of EA with child age and ACEs adding only small amount of variance to the prediction. The same HMR process was repeated for flourishing, with the covariate child age alone. For fathers (n = 18), flourishing was a significant predictor of EA and child age added only a small amount of variance to the prediction. Results indicate that experiencing high COVID-19-related stressors is associated with lower EA for mothers, but not fathers. Having high levels of flourishing during the pandemic was predictive of higher EA for fathers, but not mothers.

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