Parents' Distress and Poor Parenting during a COVID-19 Lockdown: The Buffering Effects of Partner Support and Cooperative Coparenting

Autor/inn/en	McRae, Caitlin S.; Overall, Nickola C.; Henderson, Annette M. E.; Low, Rachel S. T.; Chang, Valerie T.
Titel	Parents' Distress and Poor Parenting during a COVID-19 Lockdown: The Buffering Effects of Partner Support and Cooperative Coparenting
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 57 (2021) 10, S.1623-1632 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (McRae, Caitlin S.) ORCID (Overall, Nickola C.) ORCID (Henderson, Annette M. E.) ORCID (Low, Rachel S. T.) ORCID (Chang, Valerie T.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001207
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Disease Control; Parenting Styles; Stress Variables; Psychological Patterns; Predictor Variables; Cooperation; Foreign Countries; Mothers; Fathers; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parent Child Relationship; New Zealand; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prädiktor; Co-operation; Kooperation; Ausland; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Neuseeland
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and cooperative coparenting buffer this potentially detrimental effect. Participants included 362 parents; 310 were from the same family (155 dyads). Parents had completed assessments of psychological distress and parenting prior to the pandemic and then reported on their distress, parenting, partner support, and cooperative coparenting during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Parents' distress during the lockdown predicted relative residual increases in harsh parenting, but this effect was buffered by partner support. Parents' distress also predicted residual decreases in warm/responsive parenting and parent-child relationship quality, but these effects were buffered by cooperative coparenting. Partner support and cooperative coparenting are important targets for future research and interventions to help parents navigate challenging family contexts, including COVID-19 lockdowns. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01