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COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences

BACKGROUND: Heightened familial stress and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to increased negative parenting practices, particularly for parents with substantial adverse childhood experiences (ACES). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether families' COVID-19-related distress is associated...

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Autores principales: Hails, Katherine A., Petts, Rachel A., Hostutler, Cody A., Simoni, Marisa, Greene, Rachel, Snider, Tyanna C., Riley, Andrew R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34969517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105450
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author Hails, Katherine A.
Petts, Rachel A.
Hostutler, Cody A.
Simoni, Marisa
Greene, Rachel
Snider, Tyanna C.
Riley, Andrew R.
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description BACKGROUND: Heightened familial stress and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to increased negative parenting practices, particularly for parents with substantial adverse childhood experiences (ACES). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether families' COVID-19-related distress is associated with young children's emotional/behavioral functioning via negative parenting, and whether these relationships vary based on parents' ACEs. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Participants were 267 parents of children ages 1.5–5 years recruited from five primary care sites across the United States. METHODS: Participants completed internet questionnaires including measures of demographics, parent ACES, negative parenting, parent mental health, and COVID-19 distress. We used regression analyses to test a moderated mediation model in which the relationship between COVID-19 distress and child emotional/behavioral problems is mediated by negative parenting, and both the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 distress on child emotional/behavioral problems is moderated by parents' ACEs. RESULTS: Negative parenting significantly mediated the relationship between COVID-19 distress and child emotional/behavioral problems (indirect effect β = 0.07). Parents' ACEs moderated the associations between COVID-19 distress and both negative parenting and child emotional/behavioral problems, such that each relationship was stronger in the context of higher parental ACEs. The model accounted for 42% of the variance in child emotional/behavioral problems. CONCLUSIONS: Findings have implications for managing risk and promoting well-being in young children during periods of significant stress and routine disruption. This study advances understanding of factors influencing negative outcomes in children during the pandemic's acute phase and may have implications for the development of targeted interventions to improve families' adjustment in the future.
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spelling pubmed-87104292021-12-28 COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences Hails, Katherine A. Petts, Rachel A. Hostutler, Cody A. Simoni, Marisa Greene, Rachel Snider, Tyanna C. Riley, Andrew R. Child Abuse Negl Article BACKGROUND: Heightened familial stress and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to increased negative parenting practices, particularly for parents with substantial adverse childhood experiences (ACES). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether families' COVID-19-related distress is associated with young children's emotional/behavioral functioning via negative parenting, and whether these relationships vary based on parents' ACEs. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Participants were 267 parents of children ages 1.5–5 years recruited from five primary care sites across the United States. METHODS: Participants completed internet questionnaires including measures of demographics, parent ACES, negative parenting, parent mental health, and COVID-19 distress. We used regression analyses to test a moderated mediation model in which the relationship between COVID-19 distress and child emotional/behavioral problems is mediated by negative parenting, and both the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 distress on child emotional/behavioral problems is moderated by parents' ACEs. RESULTS: Negative parenting significantly mediated the relationship between COVID-19 distress and child emotional/behavioral problems (indirect effect β = 0.07). Parents' ACEs moderated the associations between COVID-19 distress and both negative parenting and child emotional/behavioral problems, such that each relationship was stronger in the context of higher parental ACEs. The model accounted for 42% of the variance in child emotional/behavioral problems. CONCLUSIONS: Findings have implications for managing risk and promoting well-being in young children during periods of significant stress and routine disruption. This study advances understanding of factors influencing negative outcomes in children during the pandemic's acute phase and may have implications for the development of targeted interventions to improve families' adjustment in the future. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-08 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8710429/ /pubmed/34969517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105450 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
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title_full COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
title_fullStr COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
title_short COVID-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: The moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
title_sort covid-19 distress, negative parenting, and child behavioral problems: the moderating role of parent adverse childhood experiences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34969517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105450
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