Under the same roof: Parents’ COVID-related stress mediates the associations between household crowdedness and young children's problem behaviors during social distancing

Wang, Zhenlin; Yeung, Pui Lam; Gao, Xiaozi

doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100022

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“…This was confirmed for both Italian and Irish students. While this finding is novel, it is broadly in line with research within developmental psychology on the impacts of household chaos to families and child health [20,21]. The results highlight the importance of considering students' home environments, especially during stressful events such as the pandemic, in assessing their wellbeing needs.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Consistent household chaos can compromise wellbeing and healthy behaviors [20]. Changes during the pandemic may have contributed to an added household chaos with negative impact on adults as well [21]. Existing studies have overlooked the potential role of the quality of the household environment in young adults' wellbeing and proenvironmental behavior.…”

Section: Household Conditions During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engagement with Nature and the Home Environment: Wellbeing and Proenvironmental Behavior among Irish and Italian University Students during the COVID-19 Emergency

Tzankova,

O’Sullivan,

Facciuto

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Growing evidence shows that exposure to nature and psychological engagement with nature improve health and wellbeing and promote greater proenvironmental engagement. The unprecedented situation created by COVID-related lockdowns seems to have brought both potential distress with household confinements and greater research on experiences in nature. University students may have been particularly impacted as the quality of their home arrangements can vary substantially. The aim of the study was to examine how psychological engagement with nature (nature connectedness and noticing nature), time spent in nature, and household conditions relate to psychological wellbeing and proenvironmental behavior among university students. An online survey was administered to a sample of 566 university students from Italy and Ireland. Hierarchical multiple regressions were performed to investigate the relationships between variables. The results indicate that time spent in nature and psychological engagement with nature in terms of nature connectedness and noticing nature were associated with increased wellbeing and pro-nature-conservation behavior, controlling for demographic covariates. Moreover, the perception of chaos in one’s household was related to decreased wellbeing during the prolonged COVID-19 emergency. The findings highlight the need to invest in accessible natural places for students and to focus campus sustainability practices on encouraging nature connectedness to promote wellbeing and proenvironmental engagement.

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confidence: 73%

Section: Household Conditions During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engagement with Nature and the Home Environment: Wellbeing and Proenvironmental Behavior among Irish and Italian University Students during the COVID-19 Emergency

Tzankova,

O’Sullivan,

Facciuto

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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“…A study conducted highlighted that the crowdedness negatively impacted the children's educational achievements, internalizing and externalizing behavior. Moreover, during Covid since children could not have access to the schools where they relied to support their development and wellbeing ended up having detrimental impact on children's wellbeing and reported greater physical and mental health issues (Solari & Mare, 2012;Wang, Yeung &Gao, 2021). Therefore, it is essential that policy makers should provide adequate facilities to families, especially with young children so that during their growing and developing phase they can have adequate space necessary for their personal growth.…”

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Linking Crowding with the Social and Neurological Phenomenon: A Social Requirement

Khera,

Yusuf,

Mughairbi

2023

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Objective: This manuscript tries to report the effect of crowing on children's and adults' well-being. Crowding is a social phenomenon where living conditions have also shown worsening effects on a child's adequate development and execution of behavior. Further, crowding also has a worsening effect on individual working and family space and happiness. Theoretical framework: To present the complete and comprehensive approach to the effects of crowding, theoretical descriptions were presented from international scientific publications, reports, and empirical studies. The manuscript presents the recent development in crowing over the last few years. Methodology: Very little research has been directed to investigate the impact of crowding as a social phenomenon on children's and adults' well-being. It is important to understand the markers related to crowding which may affect individual happiness and child development. Therefore, this narrative review serves as a tool to investigate different aspects of crowding. Mainly the articles from the years 2000 to 2023 have been included from the various scientific platforms that have relevance to the proposed topic. Results and conclusion: Crowding affects family life and may negatively impact the bonding between parents and children, especially during the pandemic. Crowding has important aspects of social inequality which have been neglected mainly by underdeveloped or overpopulated cities or countries. These poor living conditions may also serve as the main problem associated with neurological and emotional well-being in all types of problems resulting in emotional and personality issues. These negative effects may also impact children and adults neurological and professional incompetencies may serve longitudinal consequences mainly for socioeconomic status. The main reason could be understood as lower-income group individuals live in small houses, which could compromise their individual space, and personal and professional lives in various ways. The chapter aims to define all the above-mentioned areas with some suggestive strategies that may be beneficial in living in the new normal from the perspective of individual well-being and the formation of living law conditions in a country. Originality/value: The manuscript is a narrative review highlighting the importance of the social phenomenon crowding on an individual's social, personal and professional development. The manuscript also establishes the link between crowding and neurological phenomena from the perspective of adults' well-being and child development Further, children may also show negative and long-term consequences for residing in overcrowded home spaces and individual professional life may also be affected. The manuscript is essential to ensure and modify the government rules and ensure child and adult development from the perspective of interpersonal spaces.

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“…In many cases, the increased time spent online worsened young people's mental health by increasing the sense of social isolation, depression and anxiety, and loss of real-time social experiences, skills, and habits [9]. Studies also reveal that a 'shadow' pandemic evolved in parallel with the global health crisis associated with increased sedentary behaviours [10], family conflicts due to the overlapping tasks of parenting, schooling and work from home [11], and worsened quality of education, particularly for children and youth from low-resource families [12], etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study

Dimitrova

Alexandrova-Karamanova

2023

Societies

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The paper focuses on the association between Bulgarian adolescents’ health risk behaviours (cigarette smoking, vaping, alcohol use and drunkenness) and biopsychosocial factors at individual and interpersonal levels, using data from the pre-pandemic and the pandemic periods, i.e. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (2018) and the study of adolescent health and well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022/2023). Logistic regression models reveal a positive association with age in both periods, decreasing gender difference in smoking, presistant effect of family structure, strengthened effect of the material status of the family and a differenciating effect of ethnicity at the end of the pandemic. Family support is positively asociated with substance (mis)use in both periods. At the end of the pandemic generalized anxiety is positively associated with substance (mis)use, loneliness has a negative association with drunkenness, and limited social interaction and vaping are in a positive relationship. The experience of COVID-19 infection in the family is associated with higher risk of smoking, while treatment in hospital for COVID-19 of the adolescent or a family member is associated with a higher risk of vaping and drunkenness. Interactions with COVID-19 experience and psychosocial variables reveal a divergence in health risk behaviours, including also engagement in substance (mis)use. Effective interventions, targeting the identified risk factors and risk groups, are needed for promotion of healthy lifestyles among adolescents.

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Under the same roof: Parents’ COVID-related stress mediates the associations between household crowdedness and young children's problem behaviors during social distancing

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Engagement with Nature and the Home Environment: Wellbeing and Proenvironmental Behavior among Irish and Italian University Students during the COVID-19 Emergency

Engagement with Nature and the Home Environment: Wellbeing and Proenvironmental Behavior among Irish and Italian University Students during the COVID-19 Emergency

Linking Crowding with the Social and Neurological Phenomenon: A Social Requirement

Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study

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