Mothers' and Children's Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress.

The present study, carried out during the first peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, aimed at investigating the mental health of mothers and children during the nationwide lockdown. More specifically, the study investigated children's depression and mothers' individual distress and parenting stre...

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Publicado en:Child Psychiatry & Human Development Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 134 - 147
Autores principales: Babore, Alessandra, Trumello, Carmen, Lombardi, Lucia, Candelori, Carla, Chirumbolo, Antonio, Cattelino, Elena, Baiocco, Roberto, Bramanti, Sonia Monique, Viceconti, Maria Luisa, Pignataro, Silvia, Morelli, Mara
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2023
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          Babore, Alessandra
          Trumello, Carmen
          Lombardi, Lucia
          Candelori, Carla
          Chirumbolo, Antonio
          Cattelino, Elena
          Baiocco, Roberto
          Bramanti, Sonia Monique
          Viceconti, Maria Luisa
          Pignataro, Silvia
          Morelli, Mara
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          Department of Psychological, Health, and Territorial Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
          Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
          Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Valle d'Aosta, Aosta, Italy
          Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
          Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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        Italy
        COVID-19 pandemic
        Children's health
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        Depression in women
        Stay-at-home orders
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        Child depression
        COVID-19
        Maternal distress
        Mother–child relations
        Parenting stress
        Child depression
        COVID-19
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        Mother–child relations
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      ab: The present study, carried out during the first peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, aimed at investigating the mental health of mothers and children during the nationwide lockdown. More specifically, the study investigated children's depression and mothers' individual distress and parenting stress, in comparison with normative samples. The mediating effect of mothers' parenting stress on the relationship between mothers' individual distress and children's depression was also explored. Finally, the study analyzed whether children's biological sex and age moderated the structural paths of the proposed model. A sample of 206 Italian mothers and their children completed an online survey. Mothers were administered self-report questionnaires investigating individual distress and parenting stress; children completed a standardized measure of depression. Mothers' individual distress and parenting stress and children's depression were higher than those recorded for the normative samples. Mothers' parenting stress was found to mediate the association between mothers' individual distress and children's depression. With respect to children, neither biological sex nor age emerged as significant moderators of this association, highlighting that the proposed model was robust and invariant. During the current and future pandemics, public health services should support parents—and particularly mothers—in reducing individual distress and parenting stress, as these are associated with children's depression.
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