ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
How Personality Relates to Distress in Parents during the Covid-19 Lockdown: The Mediating Role of Child's Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties and the Moderating Effect of Living with Other People.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuroticism and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Parental Mental Health and Child Maltreatment in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Importance of Sampling in a Quantitative Statistical Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Personality Traits and Sociodemographic Variables' Effects on Parental Burnout During the Second and Fourth COVID-19 Waves in Italian Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The association between smoking and family health with the mediation role of personality among Chinese people: nationwide cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and associated factors in Bangladeshi adolescents during COVID-19.Health science reports · 2024Article
- [Trends in child and adolescent mental health in Catalonia in the context of the covid-19 pandemic during the 2020-2021 school year].Anales de pediatria (Barcelona, Spain : 2003) · 2023Article
- Parents' Perceptions of Children's Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent-Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown.Journal of family issues · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal mental health, early childhood development, and parental practices: a global scoping review.BMC public health · 2023Article
- A health impact assessment of gender inequities associated with psychological distress during COVID19 in Australia's most locked down state-Victoria.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Psychological Distress Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Hope.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- A multifactorial framework of psychobehavioral determinants of coping behaviors: an online survey at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Parents' personality, parenting stress, and problem behaviors of children with special needs in China before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Mental Health Status of French School-Aged Children's Parents during the COVID-19 Lockdown and Its Associated Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Being a parent, emotional stability, and adjustment disorder symptoms in the face of COVID-19.Family relations · 2022Article
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- Mental health of children with and without special healthcare needs and of their caregivers during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents in Germany.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Psychological distress among hospital caregivers during and after the first wave of COVID-19: Individual factors involved in the severity of symptoms expression.Psychiatry research communications · 2022Article
- Quality of Life and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents after the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Large Population-Based Survey in South Tyrol, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Since the initiation of the COVID-19 lockdown, Italian parents have been forced to manage their children at home. The present study aimed at investigating the psychological distress of parents during the lockdown, identifying contributing factors. An online survey was administered to 833 participants from 3 to 15 April 2020. Mediation and moderated mediation models were run to explore the association between parent neuroticism and parent distress, mediated by child hyperactivity-inattention and child emotional symptoms, and the moderating effect of living only with child(ren) on the direct and indirect effects of parent neuroticism on parent distress. For parents living only with child(ren), high levels of psychological distress depended exclusively on their levels of neuroticism. For parents living with at least one other person in addition to child(ren), distress levels were also mediated by child behavioral and emotional difficulties. Motherhood emerged as a significant factor contributing to greater distress. Furthermore, parent psychological distress decreased in line with increased child age. The results confirm that neuroticism is an important risk factor for mental health. Preventive measures should be primarily target multicomponent families with younger children and directed towards parents who are already known to present emotional instability and to parents of children who have received local mental health assistance for behavioral and/or emotional difficulties.
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