Maternal distress and parenting during COVID-19: differential effects related to pre-pandemic distress?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Distinguishing whether and how pre-existing characteristics impact maternal responses to adversity is difficult: Does prior well-being decrease the likelihood of encountering stressful experiences? Does it protect against adversity's negative effects? We examine whether the interaction between relatively uniformly experienced adversity (due to COVID-19 experience) and individual variation in pre-existing (i.e., pre-pandemic onset) distress predicted mothers' pandemic levels of distress and insensitive caregiving within a country reporting low COVID-19 death rates, and strict nationwide regulations.

Method

Fifty-one Singaporean mothers and their preschool-aged children provided data across two waves. Pre- pandemic onset maternal distress (i.e., psychological distre

SUBMITTER: Low A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10225758 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature