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Families in quarantine for COVID-19 in Italy. Resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors

The pandemic of Covid-19 has had a high impact on people’s lives and especially on families. In Italy, in 2020, the several forced closures led families to live indoors to manage anxiety and distress. It was considered appropriate to investigate which protective factors, like parental resilience, ca...

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Autores principales: Pugliese, E., Mosca, O., Paolini, D., Mancini, F., Puntonieri, D., Maricchiolo, F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35910234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03374-7
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Mosca, O.
Paolini, D.
Mancini, F.
Puntonieri, D.
Maricchiolo, F.
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description The pandemic of Covid-19 has had a high impact on people’s lives and especially on families. In Italy, in 2020, the several forced closures led families to live indoors to manage anxiety and distress. It was considered appropriate to investigate which protective factors, like parental resilience, can mitigate the negative impact of pandemic-related distress on family life. We have conducted two online surveys during different national lockdowns for Covid-19. The first survey was conducted immediately after the disruption of the virus and the second one after nine months. We measured parental resilience and distress, anxiety, problematic behaviors, and somatization of their children (as assessed by the parents). The aim was to investigate the protective role of parental resilience in mitigating parental distress and in turn problematic emotional states and behavior of their children. Mediation analyses confirmed the hypothesis that parental resilience lowers parental distress and consequently the anxiety and behavioral disorders of their children in both acute distress (first study) and chronic distress (second study) situations. Such results suggest that the improvement of parents’ resilience can buffer the negative impact of pandemic-related parental distress and children’s behavioral problems on both occasions. The need for focused interventions and treatments aimed to reinforce parental resilience is discussed. Targeted prevention and support strategies are needed now, and early in case of future health crises.
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spelling pubmed-93095992022-07-25 Families in quarantine for COVID-19 in Italy. Resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors Pugliese, E. Mosca, O. Paolini, D. Mancini, F. Puntonieri, D. Maricchiolo, F. Curr Psychol Article The pandemic of Covid-19 has had a high impact on people’s lives and especially on families. In Italy, in 2020, the several forced closures led families to live indoors to manage anxiety and distress. It was considered appropriate to investigate which protective factors, like parental resilience, can mitigate the negative impact of pandemic-related distress on family life. We have conducted two online surveys during different national lockdowns for Covid-19. The first survey was conducted immediately after the disruption of the virus and the second one after nine months. We measured parental resilience and distress, anxiety, problematic behaviors, and somatization of their children (as assessed by the parents). The aim was to investigate the protective role of parental resilience in mitigating parental distress and in turn problematic emotional states and behavior of their children. Mediation analyses confirmed the hypothesis that parental resilience lowers parental distress and consequently the anxiety and behavioral disorders of their children in both acute distress (first study) and chronic distress (second study) situations. Such results suggest that the improvement of parents’ resilience can buffer the negative impact of pandemic-related parental distress and children’s behavioral problems on both occasions. The need for focused interventions and treatments aimed to reinforce parental resilience is discussed. Targeted prevention and support strategies are needed now, and early in case of future health crises. Springer US 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9309599/ /pubmed/35910234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03374-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Families in quarantine for COVID-19 in Italy. Resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors
title_full Families in quarantine for COVID-19 in Italy. Resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors
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title_short Families in quarantine for COVID-19 in Italy. Resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors
title_sort families in quarantine for covid-19 in italy. resilience as a buffer of parental distress and problematic children’s emotions and behaviors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309599/
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