Associations between pre-pandemic authoritative parenting, pandemic stressors, and children's depression and anxiety at the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Heaton KG; Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. kh831@gsapp.rutgers.edu., Camacho NL; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. nicolas.camacho@duke.edu., Gaffrey MS; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. mgaffrey@mcw.edu.; Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. mgaffrey@mcw.edu.; Division of Pediatric Psychology and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. mgaffrey@mcw.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2023 Sep 20; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 15592. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 20.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42268-x
Abstrakt: Large-scale changes due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic negatively affected children's mental health. Prior research suggests that children's mental health problems during the pandemic may have been concurrently attenuated by an authoritative parenting style and exacerbated by family stress. However, there is a gap in the literature investigating these mechanisms and whether pre-pandemic authoritative parenting had a lasting positive influence on children's mental health while they were exposed to pandemic-related family stressors. The current study begins to fill this gap by investigating these unique relationships in a sample of 106 4-8 year old children (51% female). Before the pandemic, caregivers completed questionnaires on their parenting style and their children's depression and anxiety symptoms. Shortly after the onset of COVID-19's stay-at-home mandate, parents answered questionnaires about their children's depression and anxiety symptoms and pandemic-related family stressors. Child depression and anxiety symptom severity increased. Higher levels of pandemic-related family stress were associated with increases only in child anxiety scores. Further, greater endorsement of a pre-pandemic authoritative parenting style was associated with smaller changes only in child depression scores. Study findings elucidate unique and complex associations between young children's anxiety and depression symptoms severity and pre-pandemic parenting and pandemic-related family stressors.
(© 2023. Springer Nature Limited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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