Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 64 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2021 Dec;52(6):1012-1023. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01109-y. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered family life, but whether family exposures to and worries about the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted child conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits is unknown. Thus, we evaluated 303 parents (M = 38.04; SD = 5.21; 92.4% biological mothers) and children (M = 6.43; SD = 2.13; 51.8% female) during a four-month period early in the pandemic. We examined associations between parental exposures to COVID-19, parental worries about the pandemic, harsh and warm parenting practices, and child CP and CU traits. Although more parental worries were not directly related to parenting practices, more worry about COVID-19 was specifically related to higher levels of child CP, particularly parental worries about themselves or family members contracting the virus. Our findings add to a growing literature demonstrating the burden that the pandemic has placed on families and its implications for children's mental health.
新冠疫情大流行极大地改变了家庭生活，但家庭对新冠疫情的暴露和担忧是否会影响儿童的行为问题（CP）和冷酷无情（CU）特征尚不清楚。因此，我们在疫情早期的四个月内评估了 303 名父母（M=38.04；SD=5.21；92.4%为亲生母亲）和儿童（M=6.43；SD=2.13；51.8%为女性）。我们考察了父母对新冠疫情的暴露、对疫情的担忧、严厉和温暖的养育方式，以及儿童 CP 和 CU 特征之间的关联。尽管父母对新冠疫情的更多担忧与养育方式没有直接关系，但对疫情的更多担忧与儿童 CP 水平升高有关，特别是与父母对自己或家庭成员感染病毒的担忧有关。我们的研究结果增加了越来越多的文献，这些文献表明了疫情给家庭带来的负担及其对儿童心理健康的影响。
