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- Title
Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning.
- Authors
Feinberg, Mark E.; A. Mogle, Jacqueline; Lee, Jin‐Kyung; Tornello, Samantha L.; Hostetler, Michelle L.; Cifelli, Joseph A.; Bai, Sunhye; Hotez, Emily
- Abstract
To quantify the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and public health interventions on parent and child mental health and family relationships, we examined change in individual and family functioning in a sample of parents enrolled in a prevention trial; we examined change before the pandemic (2017–2019) when children were an average of 7 years old to the first months after the imposition of widespread public health interventions in the United States (2020) with paired t tests and HLM models. We examined moderation by parent gender, education, family income, and coparenting conflict. We found large deteriorations from before the pandemic to the first months of the pandemic in child internalizing and externalizing problems and parent depression, and a moderate decline in coparenting quality. Smaller changes were found for parent anxiety and parenting quality. Mothers and families with lower levels of income were at particular risk for deterioration in well‐being. Results indicate a need for widespread family support and intervention to prevent potential family "scarring," that is, prolonged, intertwined individual mental health and family relationship problems.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CONFIDENCE intervals; CO-parents; FAMILY conflict; T-test (Statistics); PARENTING; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; FAMILY relations; ANXIETY; ODDS ratio; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Family Process, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 1, p361
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12649