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Caregivers’ anxiety and perception of their children’s wellbeing: a year into the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and related social restrictions disrupted family routines affecting millions of youths and their caregivers worldwide. This study explored the relationship between caregivers’ anxiety and their children’s emotional states 1 year after COVID-19, as well as differences between ca...

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Autores principales: Pena-Shaff, Judith, Heckart, Ashtyn, Mannion, Caroline, Barry, Kayla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37275733
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1115322
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description The COVID-19 pandemic and related social restrictions disrupted family routines affecting millions of youths and their caregivers worldwide. This study explored the relationship between caregivers’ anxiety and their children’s emotional states 1 year after COVID-19, as well as differences between caregivers’ perceptions of their children’s emotional states and reality. Sixty-eight caregiver-child pairs completed an online survey between March 31 and May 31, 2021. Our analysis showed positive correlations between caregivers’ anxiety and children’s wellbeing, worries about children’s use of time, and a variety of negative emotional states in their children. Caregivers’ anxiety about their children’s wellbeing was negatively correlated with their children’s perceptions of self-control. Caregivers’ anxiety about their personal wellbeing was negatively correlated with children’s feelings of busyness and positively associated to their children’s fear. Caregivers’ perception of COVID-19 as a challenging experience was positively associated with some of their children’s negative emotions. Overall, caregivers were accurate about children’s emotional experiences in the previous 3 months with some exceptions: their children felt lonelier and more worried about schoolwork and grades than their caregivers realized. These findings will help researchers and practitioners further explore the sources of caregivers’ anxiety and their relationship with children’s emotions and stress management as countries move toward a new normal.
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spelling pubmed-102345712023-06-02 Caregivers’ anxiety and perception of their children’s wellbeing: a year into the COVID-19 pandemic Pena-Shaff, Judith Heckart, Ashtyn Mannion, Caroline Barry, Kayla Front Psychol Psychology The COVID-19 pandemic and related social restrictions disrupted family routines affecting millions of youths and their caregivers worldwide. This study explored the relationship between caregivers’ anxiety and their children’s emotional states 1 year after COVID-19, as well as differences between caregivers’ perceptions of their children’s emotional states and reality. Sixty-eight caregiver-child pairs completed an online survey between March 31 and May 31, 2021. Our analysis showed positive correlations between caregivers’ anxiety and children’s wellbeing, worries about children’s use of time, and a variety of negative emotional states in their children. Caregivers’ anxiety about their children’s wellbeing was negatively correlated with their children’s perceptions of self-control. Caregivers’ anxiety about their personal wellbeing was negatively correlated with children’s feelings of busyness and positively associated to their children’s fear. Caregivers’ perception of COVID-19 as a challenging experience was positively associated with some of their children’s negative emotions. Overall, caregivers were accurate about children’s emotional experiences in the previous 3 months with some exceptions: their children felt lonelier and more worried about schoolwork and grades than their caregivers realized. These findings will help researchers and practitioners further explore the sources of caregivers’ anxiety and their relationship with children’s emotions and stress management as countries move toward a new normal. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10234571/ /pubmed/37275733 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1115322 Text en Copyright © 2023 Pena-Shaff, Heckart, Mannion and Barry. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Caregivers’ anxiety and perception of their children’s wellbeing: a year into the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort caregivers’ anxiety and perception of their children’s wellbeing: a year into the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234571/
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