Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents' perceptions of stress.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding what contributes to individual variability in experiences of stress. Increases in stress related to the pandemic have been especially pronounced in parents, indicating a need for research examining what factors contribute to parents' perceptions of stress. Here, we assessed the relationship between parents' perceptions of stress, control, loneliness, and experiences of childhood trauma in two populations of caregivers. In Study 1, we examined the relationship between perceptions of stress, control, loneliness, and history of early stress, along with indices of socioeconomic risk and resting parasympathetic nervous systema activity, which has been linked to variability in perceptions of stress, in caregivers of young chil

SUBMITTER: Smith KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415274 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature