ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Family Functioning in the Time of COVID-19 Among Economically Vulnerable Families: Risks and Protective Factors.
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- How COVID-19 Affected Parenting in a Multi-City Sample With Low Incomes.Journal of family issues · 2025Article
- Exploring the psycho-social needs of families of COVID-19 victims and their reactions to health protocol adherence after bereavement: a qualitative study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Long-term effects of changes in coparenting quality during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach.Journal of family issues · 2025Article
- The effect of received social support on preferred coping strategies and perceived quality of life in adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Social factors associated with self-reported changes in mental health symptoms among youth in the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Parental Burnout During the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Parenting Stressors and Coparenting Support.Family journal (Alexandria, Va.) · 2023Article
- Risk Factors and Protective Factors of Internet Addiction in University Students during the Pandemic: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Applying a family stress model to understand U.S. families' patterns of stress, media use, and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of children and media · 2023Article
- High-risk children and social isolation: the importance of family functioning.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Mothers' and fathers' stress and severity of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: actor-partner effects with parental negative emotions as a moderator.BMC psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has been particularly harmful to economically vulnerable families with young children. We surveyed 247 low-income mothers and fathers from 142 families in the United States about changes in their family life following the economic and social restrictions imposed by the pandemic. We examined the associations between pandemic-related risk factors such as economic stressors (e.g., loss of job) and social stressors (e.g., exposure to the virus) on family functioning (e.g., parents' mental health, parent engagement, and children's socioemotional behaviors) and the degree to which coparenting support and parents' positivity protected families from the negative effects of these stressors on their wellbeing. We found both positive and negative associations. Mothers and fathers who reported more economic stressors since the pandemic also observed that their children behaved more prosocially and that fathers experienced more mental health difficulties during the pandemic. Mothers and fathers who reported more social stressors reported that they were less engaged with their children and their children exhibited more behavior problems compared to before the pandemic. We also found that mothers and fathers who reported feeling more positive also reported feeling less depressed and stressed during the pandemic and observed that their children had more prosocial behaviors compared to before the pandemic. Compared to before the pandemic, mothers and fathers who reported a more supportive coparenting relationship also reported more parent engagement and observed more prosocial behaviors in their children. In terms of protective factors, high levels of parent positivity during the pandemic protected mothers (less mental health difficulties) whereas high levels of coparenting support protected fathers (less mental health difficulties) from the negative effects of economic stress on their mental health during the pandemic. These findings highlight family processes that could promote resilience in mothers and fathers in the face of pandemic-related economic and social stressors.
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