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Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis

The quantity and quality of environmental stimuli and contexts are crucial for children’s development. Following the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), restrictive measures have been implemented, constraining children’s social lives and changing their daily routines. To date, there is a lack of rese...

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Autores principales: Lampis, Valentina, Mascheretti, Sara, Cantiani, Chiara, Riva, Valentina, Lorusso, Maria Luisa, Lecce, Serena, Molteni, Massimo, Antonietti, Alessandro, Giorgetti, Marisa
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10040656
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author Lampis, Valentina
Mascheretti, Sara
Cantiani, Chiara
Riva, Valentina
Lorusso, Maria Luisa
Lecce, Serena
Molteni, Massimo
Antonietti, Alessandro
Giorgetti, Marisa
author_facet Lampis, Valentina
Mascheretti, Sara
Cantiani, Chiara
Riva, Valentina
Lorusso, Maria Luisa
Lecce, Serena
Molteni, Massimo
Antonietti, Alessandro
Giorgetti, Marisa
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description The quantity and quality of environmental stimuli and contexts are crucial for children’s development. Following the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), restrictive measures have been implemented, constraining children’s social lives and changing their daily routines. To date, there is a lack of research assessing the long-lasting impacts that these changes have had on children’s language and emotional–behavioral development. In a large sample of preschoolers (N = 677), we investigated (a) the long-lasting effects of changes in family and social life and in daily activities over the first Italian nationwide COVID-19-pandemic-related lockdown upon children’s linguistic and emotional–behavioral profiles and (b) how children’s demographic variables and lifelong family characteristics moderated these associations within a multiple-moderator framework. Our findings showed a relationship between the time spent watching TV/playing video games and affective problems that was moderated by the number of siblings. Our findings showed that children who could be at high risk in more normal circumstances, such as only children, have been particularly harmed. Therefore, assessing the long-term effects of lockdown-related measures and how these could have been moderated by potential risk/protective factors added significant information to the existing literature.
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spelling pubmed-101371182023-04-28 Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis Lampis, Valentina Mascheretti, Sara Cantiani, Chiara Riva, Valentina Lorusso, Maria Luisa Lecce, Serena Molteni, Massimo Antonietti, Alessandro Giorgetti, Marisa Children (Basel) Article The quantity and quality of environmental stimuli and contexts are crucial for children’s development. Following the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), restrictive measures have been implemented, constraining children’s social lives and changing their daily routines. To date, there is a lack of research assessing the long-lasting impacts that these changes have had on children’s language and emotional–behavioral development. In a large sample of preschoolers (N = 677), we investigated (a) the long-lasting effects of changes in family and social life and in daily activities over the first Italian nationwide COVID-19-pandemic-related lockdown upon children’s linguistic and emotional–behavioral profiles and (b) how children’s demographic variables and lifelong family characteristics moderated these associations within a multiple-moderator framework. Our findings showed a relationship between the time spent watching TV/playing video games and affective problems that was moderated by the number of siblings. Our findings showed that children who could be at high risk in more normal circumstances, such as only children, have been particularly harmed. Therefore, assessing the long-term effects of lockdown-related measures and how these could have been moderated by potential risk/protective factors added significant information to the existing literature. MDPI 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10137118/ /pubmed/37189908 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10040656 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lampis, Valentina
Mascheretti, Sara
Cantiani, Chiara
Riva, Valentina
Lorusso, Maria Luisa
Lecce, Serena
Molteni, Massimo
Antonietti, Alessandro
Giorgetti, Marisa
Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title_full Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title_fullStr Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title_short Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis
title_sort long-lasting effects of changes in daily routine during the pandemic-related lockdown on preschoolers’ language and emotional–behavioral development: a moderation analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10040656
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