Links between Children's COVID-19 Fear and Parents' Parenting Stress, Overprotective Parenting, Inconsistent Discipline, and COVID-19 Communication

被引:2
作者
Faith, Melissa A. [1 ,2 ]
Boone, Dianna M. [1 ]
Stromberg, Sarah [1 ]
Fritz, Alyssa [1 ]
Rodriguez, Juventino Hernandez [3 ]
Gregus, Samantha [4 ]
Healy, Ashly [1 ]
机构
[1] Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hosp, Ctr Behav Hlth, 880 6th St South,Suite 420, St Petersburg, FL 33701 USA
[2] Johns Hopkins Univ Hosp, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
[3] Univ Texas Rio Grande Valley, Dept Psychol Sci, 1201 W Univ Dr, Edinburg, TX 78539 USA
[4] Wichita State Univ, Dept Psychol, 1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260 USA
关键词
Overprotection; Parenting stress; Discipline; COVID-19; fear; HEALTH; UNCERTAINTY; BEHAVIORS; SYMPTOMS; YOUTH; ADOLESCENTS; DISORDERS; SUPPORT; QUALITY; ANXIETY;
D O I
10.1007/s10826-023-02641-w
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of daily life for U.S. parents and their children; however, research regarding parenting styles during the pandemic has been limited. We used a cross-sectional design to evaluate parents' perceptions of overprotective parenting, inconsistent discipline, COVID-19 communication, and children's COVID-19 fear. We surveyed 595 United States parents recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk in May 2020. We found that parents' overprotective parenting was associated with greater parenting stress and children's greater COVID fear. Conversely, we found that parents' overprotective parenting was related to parents' reduced COVID-19 communication with their children. We also found that parents' inconsistent discipline was positively related to parents' parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear. Our findings suggest parents may benefit from additional supports through the COVID-19 pandemic and that further research is needed to evaluate the nature of parents' COVID-19 communication to their children. Parents' overprotective parenting was associated with greater parenting stress and children's greater COVID fear.Parents' overprotective parenting was related to parents' reduced COVID-19 communication with their children.Parents' inconsistent discipline was positively related to parents' parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear
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页数:13
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