Ren Jie, Li Xingkai, Chen Shudan, Chen Suiqing, Nie Yangang
Department of Special Education, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Psychology, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 10;11:565393. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.565393. eCollection 2020.
The study aims to investigate the state anxiety of parents of special needs children during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic and the influence of parental stress, social support, and other related variables on the anxiety of parents.
Bespoke questionnaires of children's and parent's mental and behavioral problems during the epidemic were used in the study. We also used the State Anxiety Inventory (S-AI), the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form-15 (PSI-SF-15), the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). The data used in the study were pooled from an online survey of parents of special needs children and analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple linear regression.
Overall, 1,451 individuals were included, of which 402 were fathers (27.71%) and 1,049 were mothers (72.29%). ANOVA results showed that educational background, family monthly income, and type of their child's disability made parents' state anxiety significantly different. The results of multiple linear regression showed that during the epidemic, social support negatively predicted parents' state anxiety ( = -0.15, < 0.001), whereas parenting stress ( = 0.07, = 0.001) and parental mental and behavioral problems ( = 0.37, < 0.001) positively predicted parents' state anxiety.
During the outbreak of COVID-19, parents of special needs children suffered mental and behavioral problems, together with parenting stress and social support, which influenced their state anxiety. These findings can be used to develop relevant psychological interventions to improve the mental health of vulnerable groups during a pandemic like COVID-19.
本研究旨在调查2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）疫情期间特殊需求儿童家长的状态焦虑，以及父母压力、社会支持和其他相关变量对家长焦虑的影响。
本研究使用了针对疫情期间儿童及家长心理和行为问题的定制问卷。我们还使用了状态焦虑量表（S-AI）、养育压力指数简表-15（PSI-SF-15）、大五人格量表（NEO-FFI）和领悟社会支持量表（MSPSS）。本研究使用的数据来自对特殊需求儿童家长的在线调查，并通过单因素方差分析（ANOVA）和多元线性回归进行分析。
总体而言，共纳入1451人，其中父亲402人（27.71%），母亲1049人（72.29%）。方差分析结果显示，教育背景、家庭月收入以及孩子的残疾类型使家长的状态焦虑存在显著差异。多元线性回归结果显示，在疫情期间，社会支持对家长的状态焦虑有负向预测作用（β = -0.15，p < 0.001），而养育压力（β = 0.07，p = 0.001）和父母心理及行为问题（β = 0.37，p < 0.001）对家长的状态焦虑有正向预测作用。
在COVID-19疫情爆发期间，特殊需求儿童家长存在心理和行为问题，同时伴有养育压力和社会支持，这些因素影响了他们的状态焦虑。这些研究结果可用于制定相关心理干预措施，以改善COVID-19等大流行期间弱势群体的心理健康。
