Steinberg Selena, Liu Talia, Lense Miriam D
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 22;12:641733. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641733. eCollection 2021.
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of families in the United States and across the world, impacting parent mental health and stress, and in turn, the parent-child relationship. Music is a common parent-child activity and has been found to positively impact relationships, but little is known about music's role in parent-child interactions during a pandemic. The current study utilized an online questionnaire to assess the use of music in the home of young children and their parents in the United States and Canada during Covid-19 and its relationship with parents' affective attachment with their child. Musical activity was high for both parents and children. Parents reported using music for both emotion regulation and to socially connect with their children. Parent-child musical engagement was associated with parent-child attachment, controlling for relevant parent variables including parent distress, efficacy, education, and parent-child engagement in non-musical activities. These results indicate that music may be an effective tool for building and maintaining parent-child relationships during a period of uncertainty and change.
新冠疫情的爆发扰乱了美国乃至全世界家庭的生活，影响了父母的心理健康和压力，进而影响了亲子关系。音乐是一项常见的亲子活动，已被发现对亲子关系有积极影响，但对于疫情期间音乐在亲子互动中的作用却知之甚少。本研究通过在线问卷评估了新冠疫情期间美国和加拿大幼儿及其父母在家中使用音乐的情况，以及音乐与父母对孩子情感依恋的关系。父母和孩子的音乐活动都很频繁。父母报告称使用音乐来调节情绪并与孩子建立社交联系。在控制了包括父母压力、效能感、教育程度以及亲子在非音乐活动中的互动等相关父母变量后，亲子音乐互动与亲子依恋有关。这些结果表明，在充满不确定性和变化的时期，音乐可能是建立和维持亲子关系的有效工具。
