School of Psychology, The University of Auckland.
School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology.
Dev Psychol. 2021 Oct;57(10):1623-1632. doi: 10.1037/dev0001207.
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and cooperative coparenting buffer this potentially detrimental effect. Participants included 362 parents; 310 were from the same family (155 dyads). Parents had completed assessments of psychological distress and parenting prior to the pandemic and then reported on their distress, parenting, partner support, and cooperative coparenting during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Parents' distress during the lockdown predicted relative residual increases in harsh parenting, but this effect was buffered by partner support. Parents' distress also predicted residual decreases in warm/responsive parenting and parent-child relationship quality, but these effects were buffered by cooperative coparenting. Partner support and cooperative coparenting are important targets for future research and interventions to help parents navigate challenging family contexts, including COVID-19 lockdowns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
**新冠疫情对父母提出了要求，可能会增加父母的压力和不良育儿风险。**本研究利用新西兰一项疫情前的研究，检验了在强制封锁期间父母的心理压力是否预示着较差育儿的相对剩余变化，以及伴侣支持和合作式共同养育是否缓冲了这种潜在的不利影响。参与者包括 362 名父母；其中 310 名来自同一个家庭（155 对）。在疫情之前，父母完成了心理压力和育儿评估，然后在全国性的新冠封锁期间报告了他们的压力、育儿、伴侣支持和合作式共同养育情况。封锁期间父母的压力预示着严厉育儿的相对剩余增加，但这种影响受到伴侣支持的缓冲。父母的压力也预示着温暖/回应式育儿和亲子关系质量的相对剩余下降，但这些影响受到合作式共同养育的缓冲。伴侣支持和合作式共同养育是未来研究和干预的重要目标，有助于父母应对具有挑战性的家庭环境，包括新冠封锁。
