Partington Lindsey C, Mashash Meital, Hastings Paul D
Department of Human Ecology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Center for Mind and Brain, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 12;13:879195. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879195. eCollection 2022.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has raised deserved concern regarding adverse impacts on parents' and children's mental health, regulations like "sheltering-in-place" may have afforded parents novel opportunities to foster positive family connections, thereby bolstering well-being. Using latent profile analysis (LPA), we (a) distinguished family thriving during shelter-in-place (May-June 2020) from other patterns of family functioning, (b) tested potential predictors of family functioning profiles, and (c) examined if family thriving predicted subsequent child adjustment (September-October 2020). 449 parents in two-parent U.S. families with children aged 2-18 years completed online surveys assessing (a) parent-child relationship quality, parents' positive psychological adjustment, children's emotional well-being, and parenting efficacy and satisfaction as family functioning indicators, (b) financial, marital, parental psychosocial assets, and child (age, gender, and temperament) predictors of family functioning, and (c) child adjustment. LPA identified four family functioning profiles: Thriving, Managing, Struggling, and Distressed. Thriving families evinced higher scores on all functioning indicators. Logistic regressions revealed that parents in Thriving families reported significantly lower financial anxiety, less dissatisfaction with partner's help, less child emotionality, and greater use of cognitive reappraisal, as well as more positive child adjustment in Fall 2020. These findings underscore the multidimensional nature of coping and well-being during COVID-19. Utilizing these levers to promote mental health in families languishing during comparable future crises could promote resilience, thereby protecting children's well-being.
尽管新冠疫情引发了人们对其对父母和孩子心理健康产生负面影响的合理担忧，但诸如“就地避难”等规定可能为父母提供了培养积极家庭关系的新机会，从而提升幸福感。我们使用潜在类别分析（LPA）：（a）区分就地避难期间（2020年5月至6月）家庭的蓬勃发展与其他家庭功能模式；（b）测试家庭功能模式的潜在预测因素；（c）检验家庭的蓬勃发展是否能预测随后孩子的适应情况（2020年9月至10月）。449名来自美国家庭、孩子年龄在2至18岁的双亲父母完成了在线调查，评估内容包括：（a）亲子关系质量、父母的积极心理调适、孩子的情绪幸福感以及育儿效能和满意度，作为家庭功能指标；（b）家庭功能的财务、婚姻、父母心理社会资产以及孩子（年龄、性别和气质）预测因素；（c）孩子的适应情况。潜在类别分析确定了四种家庭功能模式：蓬勃发展型、维持型、挣扎型和苦恼型。蓬勃发展型家庭在所有功能指标上得分更高。逻辑回归显示，蓬勃发展型家庭中的父母报告称，他们在2020年秋季的财务焦虑显著更低，对伴侣帮助的不满更少，孩子的情绪问题更少，更多地使用认知重评，并且孩子的适应情况更积极。这些发现强调了新冠疫情期间应对方式和幸福感的多维度性质。在未来类似危机中，利用这些方法促进陷入困境家庭的心理健康，可增强恢复力，从而保护孩子的幸福感。
