Parents’ Psychological Factors Promoting Children’s Mental Health and Emotional Regulation During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Journal title MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Author/s Mara Morelli, Elena Cattelino, Roberto Baiocco, Emiddia Longobardi, Carmen Trumello, Alessandra Babore, Carla Candelori, Antonio Chirumbolo
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1 Language English
Pages 17 P. 47-63 File size 205 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2021-001004
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On March 9th, 2020 Italy went into lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Several studies showed how the pandemic had a negative impact on children’s psychologi-cal well-being. The present research studied how parents can promote their children’s psy-chological well-being, in order to understand how to help parents in managing this unprec-edented situation. A total of 277 parents of children aged 6 to 13 years old completed an online survey. MANCOVA analyses showed that children with more anxiety and depres-sion, more lability/negativity and less emotional regulation had parents with more psycho-logical distress, less regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and less parenting self-efficacy (all p < .01). Parents were important protective factor for their children’s mental health during the lockdown.

Keywords: Pandemic, children, psychological well-being, emotion regulation, parenting self-efficacy

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Mara Morelli, Elena Cattelino, Roberto Baiocco, Emiddia Longobardi, Carmen Trumello, Alessandra Babore, Carla Candelori, Antonio Chirumbolo, Parents’ Psychological Factors Promoting Children’s Mental Health and Emotional Regulation During the COVID-19 Lockdown in "MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA" 1/2021, pp 47-63, DOI: 10.3280/MAL2021-001004