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Parenting stress in autism: do children’s characteristics still count more than stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience higher levels of stress than parents of typically-developing (TD) children, due to differences in their children’s emotional functioning. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the cognitive and practical demands on vulnerable population...

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Autores principales: Lievore, Rachele, Lanfranchi, Silvia, Mammarella, Irene C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10014138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04441-3
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description Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience higher levels of stress than parents of typically-developing (TD) children, due to differences in their children’s emotional functioning. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the cognitive and practical demands on vulnerable populations and their families. The aim of this study was to examine parenting stress levels in parents of children ASD and TD children, considering the children’s emotional functioning (i.e., anxiety and cognitive emotion regulation strategies), and stressful life events deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 64 parent–child dyads comprising children from 7 to 16 years old, divided into two groups: 32 (26 M) children and adolescents with ASD but no intellectual disability, and 32 (26 M) with typical development. Our results show that parents of children with ASD reported higher levels of stress, but factors relating to the child and the context had a different influence on parenting stress in the ASD and TD groups. The higher level of parenting stress in the ASD group seemed to relate more to the children’s emotional characteristics, while the TD group was more affected by the unpredictable stressful events prompted by COVID-19. Families’ mental health should be considered a core aspect of supporting parents having to deal with both their child’s emotional adjustment and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-100141382023-03-15 Parenting stress in autism: do children’s characteristics still count more than stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic? Lievore, Rachele Lanfranchi, Silvia Mammarella, Irene C. Curr Psychol Article Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience higher levels of stress than parents of typically-developing (TD) children, due to differences in their children’s emotional functioning. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the cognitive and practical demands on vulnerable populations and their families. The aim of this study was to examine parenting stress levels in parents of children ASD and TD children, considering the children’s emotional functioning (i.e., anxiety and cognitive emotion regulation strategies), and stressful life events deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 64 parent–child dyads comprising children from 7 to 16 years old, divided into two groups: 32 (26 M) children and adolescents with ASD but no intellectual disability, and 32 (26 M) with typical development. Our results show that parents of children with ASD reported higher levels of stress, but factors relating to the child and the context had a different influence on parenting stress in the ASD and TD groups. The higher level of parenting stress in the ASD group seemed to relate more to the children’s emotional characteristics, while the TD group was more affected by the unpredictable stressful events prompted by COVID-19. Families’ mental health should be considered a core aspect of supporting parents having to deal with both their child’s emotional adjustment and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Springer US 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10014138/ /pubmed/37359637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04441-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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