ArticleChildren and youth services review2023
Exploring the lived experiences of women with children during COVID-19: Maternal stress and coping mechanisms.
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- Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach.Journal of family issues · 2025Article
- Pandemic mothering: Mothers' experiences of adaptation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Child & family social work · 2024Article
- Taking emic and etic to the family level: interlinking parents' and children's COVID-19 views and experiences in Germany.BMC public health · 2024Article
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This paper presents the results of a qualitative study of mothers' lived experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United States. An analysis of open-ended interviews with 44 mothers who had children ages zero-to-five identified two main themes: (1) increased stress among mothers; and (2) resilience through the use of coping mechanisms. The findings indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to higher stress among mothers due to issues of work-family life balance, family and children's needs, decision-making about getting sick, concerns for children's development, and lack of clarity from government officials. Mothers described using a variety of problem-focused and emotion-focused methods to cope with this stress. The lived experiences of mothers during the pandemic highlights the need for innovations in childcare modalities, paid leave policies to relieve stress, and strengthening whole family processes and resilience through the use of coping mechanisms.
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