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Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of millions of people around the globe and some of the unprecedent emerged disruptions, are likely to have been particularly challenging for young children (e.g., school closures, social distancing measures, movement restrictions). Studying the impact of s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7772313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577763 |
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author | Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz López-Romero, Laura Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Gómez-Fraguela, Jose Antonio Romero, Estrella |
author_facet | Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz López-Romero, Laura Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Gómez-Fraguela, Jose Antonio Romero, Estrella |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of millions of people around the globe and some of the unprecedent emerged disruptions, are likely to have been particularly challenging for young children (e.g., school closures, social distancing measures, movement restrictions). Studying the impact of such extraordinary circumstances on their well-being is crucial to identify processes leading to risk and resilience. To better understand how Spanish children have adapted to the stressful disruptions resulting from the pandemic outbreak, we examined the effects of child coping and its interactions with contextual stressors (pandemic and family related) on child adjustment, incorporating in our analysis a developmental perspective. Data was collected in April 2020, through parent-reports, during the acute phase of the pandemic and, temporarily coinciding with the mandatory national quarantine period imposed by the Spanish Government. A sample of 1,123 Spanish children (50% girls) aged 3 to 12 (Mage = 7.26; SD = 2.39) participated in the study. Results showed differences in the use of specific strategies by children in different age groups (i.e., 3–6, 7–9 and 10–12-year-olds). Despite the uncontrollable nature of the pandemic-related stressors, child disengagement coping was distinctively associated to negative outcomes (i.e., higher levels of behavioral and emotional difficulties), whereas engagement coping predicted psychosocial adjustment across all age groups. Moreover, interactively with child coping, parent fear of the future and parent dispositional resilience appear as relevant contextual factors to predict both negative and positive outcomes, but their effects seem to be age dependent, suggesting a higher contextual vulnerability for younger children. These findings might have implications for identifying individual and contextual risk and informing potential preventive interventions aimed to reduce the impact of future pandemic outbreaks on children of different ages. |
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spelling | pubmed-77723132020-12-31 Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz López-Romero, Laura Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Gómez-Fraguela, Jose Antonio Romero, Estrella Front Psychol Psychology The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of millions of people around the globe and some of the unprecedent emerged disruptions, are likely to have been particularly challenging for young children (e.g., school closures, social distancing measures, movement restrictions). Studying the impact of such extraordinary circumstances on their well-being is crucial to identify processes leading to risk and resilience. To better understand how Spanish children have adapted to the stressful disruptions resulting from the pandemic outbreak, we examined the effects of child coping and its interactions with contextual stressors (pandemic and family related) on child adjustment, incorporating in our analysis a developmental perspective. Data was collected in April 2020, through parent-reports, during the acute phase of the pandemic and, temporarily coinciding with the mandatory national quarantine period imposed by the Spanish Government. A sample of 1,123 Spanish children (50% girls) aged 3 to 12 (Mage = 7.26; SD = 2.39) participated in the study. Results showed differences in the use of specific strategies by children in different age groups (i.e., 3–6, 7–9 and 10–12-year-olds). Despite the uncontrollable nature of the pandemic-related stressors, child disengagement coping was distinctively associated to negative outcomes (i.e., higher levels of behavioral and emotional difficulties), whereas engagement coping predicted psychosocial adjustment across all age groups. Moreover, interactively with child coping, parent fear of the future and parent dispositional resilience appear as relevant contextual factors to predict both negative and positive outcomes, but their effects seem to be age dependent, suggesting a higher contextual vulnerability for younger children. These findings might have implications for identifying individual and contextual risk and informing potential preventive interventions aimed to reduce the impact of future pandemic outbreaks on children of different ages. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7772313/ /pubmed/33391095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577763 Text en Copyright © 2020 Domínguez-Álvarez, López-Romero, Isdahl-Troye, Gómez-Fraguela and Romero. http://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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz López-Romero, Laura Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Gómez-Fraguela, Jose Antonio Romero, Estrella Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title | Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title_full | Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title_fullStr | Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title_full_unstemmed | Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title_short | Children Coping, Contextual Risk and Their Interplay During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Spanish Case |
title_sort | children coping, contextual risk and their interplay during the covid-19 pandemic: a spanish case |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7772313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577763 |
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