Department of Psychology, Miami University.
Department of Anthropology, Miami University.
J Fam Psychol. 2022 Sep;36(6):815-826. doi: 10.1037/fam0000985. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought immense psychological pressure and disruptions to daily life for all individuals, and particularly children, parents, and families. Despite these difficulties, parents are able to show resilience through adaptive coping and positive parenting behaviors. Although there is robust research on resilience in children, very little research has tested predictors of parental resilience. The present study presents descriptive information about mothers' pandemic-related stressors and positive changes and then tests whether prepandemic maternal well-being and child effortful control predicted mothers' resilient parental outcomes (positive behavior and coping) through the mediators of maternal self-compassion, adherence to family routines, and child coping. The sample comprised 95 mothers (95.38% European American, 3.2% African American, and 1.1% Asian American) with a mean age of 38.21 years ( = 5.71 years, Range = 25.72-51.60 years) and education ranging from a high school to an advanced degree ( = 16.26 years, = 2.28 years, Range = 12-21 years). Results revealed that prepandemic maternal well-being predicted adaptive coping both directly and indirectly through self-compassion. Children's effortful control predicted maternal adaptive coping indirectly through children's own adaptive coping, and predicted mothers' positive parenting behaviors directly. Posthoc models revealed adherence to routines to be a correlate and outcome, rather than predictor, of positive parenting and bidirectional relations between parent and child coping. This study provides evidence for parent, child, and family-level factors related to parental resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行给所有人带来了巨大的心理压力和日常生活干扰，尤其是儿童、父母和家庭。尽管存在这些困难，但父母通过适应性应对和积极的育儿行为表现出了韧性。尽管有关儿童韧性的研究很多，但很少有研究检验父母韧性的预测因素。本研究介绍了母亲与大流行相关的压力源和积极变化的描述性信息，然后通过母亲的自我同情、遵守家庭常规和孩子应对能力等中介因素，检验了母亲的前疫情期幸福感和孩子的努力控制是否可以预测母亲的韧性父母结果（积极行为和应对）。样本包括 95 名母亲（95.38%为欧洲裔美国人，3.2%为非裔美国人，1.1%为亚裔美国人），平均年龄为 38.21 岁（ = 5.71 岁，范围为 25.72-51.60 岁），教育程度从高中到高等学位不等（ = 16.26 岁， = 2.28 岁，范围为 12-21 岁）。结果表明，母亲前疫情期幸福感既直接又通过自我同情间接预测适应性应对。儿童的努力控制能力通过儿童自身的适应性应对间接预测母亲的适应性应对，直接预测母亲的积极养育行为。事后模型表明，遵守常规是积极养育和父母与孩子应对能力之间双向关系的结果，而不是预测因素。本研究为 COVID-19 大流行期间与父母韧性相关的父母、儿童和家庭层面的因素提供了证据。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
