COVID-19 Disruption Gets inside the Family: A Two-Month Multilevel Study of Family Stress during the Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Browne, Dillon T.; Wade, Mark; May, Shealyn S.; Jenkins, Jennifer M.; Prime, Heather
Titel	COVID-19 Disruption Gets inside the Family: A Two-Month Multilevel Study of Family Stress during the Pandemic
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 57 (2021) 10, S.1681-1692 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Browne, Dillon T.) ORCID (May, Shealyn S.) ORCID (Jenkins, Jennifer M.) ORCID (Prime, Heather)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001237
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Family Relationship; Mental Health; Child Health; Caregivers; Parent Attitudes; Caregiver Attitudes; Children; Adolescents; Siblings; Family Environment; Stress Variables; Foreign Countries; Family Characteristics; Parenting Styles; Age Differences; Parent Child Relationship; United Kingdom; United States; Canada; Australia; Family Assessment Device + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Elternverhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sibling; Geschwister; Familienmilieu; Ausland; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Großbritannien; USA; Kanada; Australien
Abstract	Developmental research during COVID-19 suggests that pandemic-related disruptions in family relationships are associated with children's mental health. Most of this research has focused on 1 child per family, thereby obfuscating patterns that are differentially operative at the family-wide (i.e., between-family) versus child-specific (i.e., within-family) levels of analysis. Thus, the current study evaluates multilevel, longitudinal associations between COVID-19 disruption, family relationships, and caregiver/child mental health using a sibling comparison methodology. Caregivers (N = 549 families with 1098 children between 5 and 18 years old) were recruited from the Prolific research panel (73% White-European; 68% female; 76% United Kingdom, 19% U.S.A.; median 2019 income $50,000-$74,999). Caregiver reports of COVID-19 disruption, psychological distress, family functioning, parenting, and child mental health (for 2 children per family) were provided during May (time 1) and July (time 2) 2020. A Bayesian multilevel path analysis with random effects revealed: (a) families were experiencing difficulties across domains when COVID-19 disruption was high; (b) COVID-19 disruption corresponded to greater sibling differences in mental health; and (c) the sibling with poorer mental health received lower quality parenting over time, especially in families who reported higher levels of differential parenting. Findings suggest that understanding children's mental health difficulties during COVID-19 requires a family system lens due to the multiple ways these consequences permeate across the family unit. Comprehensive interventions for children's mental health during this time will likely require an examination of caregiver, sibling, and whole-family dynamics in the context of evidence-based telehealth practice. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01