Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this article was to explore how family chaos, parenting processes, parent-child relationship qualities, and sibling relationship qualities changed before versus the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included one parent and two adolescent-aged children from 682 families (2,046 participants). Parents and youth participating in an ongoing longitudinal study in five Midwestern states in the United States completed an additional web-based assessment of family processes and family relationship qualities during the May-June 2020 pandemic-related shutdowns. A series of two-wave latent change score models indicated that family chaos increased with the onset of pandemic-related shutdowns and that the level of chaos within a family during the shutdowns had implication

SUBMITTER: Cassinat JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611690 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature