Reciprocal effects between young children's negative emotions and mothers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relations between young children's negative emotions and their mothers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the public a certain degree of psychological symptoms, and family environments and relations have been changed dramatically as a result. The relations between young children's negative emotions and their mothers' mental health have not been sufficiently determined for the context of a pandemic or other large-scale crises.

Method

A survey was administrated on 8119 Chinese mothers of 3- to 6-year-old children with the Symptom Checklist 90 and the Child Negative Emotion Questionnaire.

Results

The canonical correlation results indicated that there were covariation trends between youn

SUBMITTER: Wei Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature