Child Psychological Functioning During the COVID-19 Lockdown: An Ecological, Family-Centered Approach.
Journal
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
ISSN: 1536-7312
Titre abrégé: J Dev Behav Pediatr
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8006933
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 09 2021
01 09 2021
Historique:
received:
01
09
2020
accepted:
01
01
2021
entrez:
14
9
2021
pubmed:
15
9
2021
medline:
21
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To evaluate how sociodemographic characteristics and various aspects of parent well-being, family functioning, parent-child relationship, and child characteristics are related to psychological functioning in children aged 9 to 12 years during the COVID-19 lockdown. Participants included 144 children aged 9 to 12 years and their parents who lived in the province of Quebec, Canada, during the COVID-19 mandatory lockdown. Parents and children were administered a phone-based survey in which various child, parent, parent-child, and family characteristics were assessed. Results showed that higher internalizing problems in children were related to greater depressive symptoms in parents, lower attachment security to parents, and greater aversion to aloneness in children. Results on externalizing behavior problems showed that more problems were associated with more family dysfunction and chaos and lower attachment security to parents. Finally, results on children's anxiety toward COVID-19 showed that more anxiety was associated with greater parental anxiety toward COVID-19 and more child aversion to aloneness. Our findings showed that even during an unusual and stressful context such as a pandemic, proximal variables such as the attachment relationship that have been known to be closely associated with adaptation are significantly related to child psychological functioning. Such observations are important because they highlight factors that may accentuate child vulnerability in times of a pandemic and shed light on potential intervention targets.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34518496
doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000935
pii: 00004703-202109000-00003
pmc: PMC8432605
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
532-539Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Disclosure: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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