Parenting and Adjustment Problems among Preschoolers during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: A critical area of developmental science explores factors that confer risk or protection as young children and their families experience stressful circumstances related to sociohistorical events. This study contributes to this important area by assessing relations between family context and child adjustment as children transitioned from preschool to home learning during COVID-19, and whether children higher in stress levels, indexed by morning basal cortisol, were more strongly affected. Parents of 74 children (M _age  = 53.56 months, SD _age = 3.68 months) completed reports spanning the home learning transition; children's pre-COVID-19 transition salivary cortisol levels were assessed. Path analyses were used to test the preregistered study aims. S

SUBMITTER: Ostrov JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9488881 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature