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- Title
Parental Mediation of COVID-19 News and Children's Emotion Regulation during Lockdown.
- Authors
Morelli, Mara; Graziano, Federica; Chirumbolo, Antonio; Baiocco, Roberto; Longobardi, Emiddia; Trumello, Carmen; Babore, Alessandra; Cattelino, Elena
- Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in a large amount of emotionally charged messaging that is believed to have a tremendous psychological impact, particularly on children and early adolescents. The present study examined the relationships between children's exposure to COVID-19 news, children's emotional responses to the news, parental styles of mediating COVID-19 news, and children's emotional functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy in April 2020. An online survey was completed by 277 parents (Mage = 43.36; SDage = 4.76; mothers = 89.5%) with children aged 6 to 13 years. Regression analyses showed that the parental active mediation style was associated with higher emotion regulation and lower lability/negativity, whereas the restrictive style was associated with higher lability/negativity and the social coviewing style was associated with lower emotion regulation. The results provide evidence for how adults using an active style can mediate messages to reduce children's emotional difficulties during events with high emotional involvement. Highlights: Exposure to COVID-19 news can have a negative psychological effect on children if it is not adequately mediated by parents. Parental active mediation of COVID-19 news is related to children's higher emotion regulation and lower lability/negativity. Parental restrictive mediation of COVID-19 news is related to children's higher lability/negativity. Parental social coviewing mediation of COVID-19 news is related to children's lower emotion regulation.
- Subjects
ITALY; CHILD psychology; MEDIA consumption; COVID-19 pandemic; EMOTION regulation; STAY-at-home orders; PARENTING; MOTHERS; COVID-19; PRESS; CHILD behavior; REGRESSION analysis; SURVEYS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PARENTS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2022, Vol 31, Issue 6, p1522
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-022-02266-5