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Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development 6/2021

06-01-2021 | Original Article

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits

Auteurs: Rebecca Waller, Tralucia Powell, Yuheiry Rodriguez, Natalie Corbett, Samantha Perlstein, Lauren K. White, Ran Barzilay, Nicholas J. Wagner

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 6/2021

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered family life, but whether family exposures to and worries about the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted child conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits is unknown. Thus, we evaluated 303 parents (Mage = 38.04; SD = 5.21; 92.4% biological mothers) and children (Mage = 6.43; SD = 2.13; 51.8% female) during a four-month period early in the pandemic. We examined associations between parental exposures to COVID-19, parental worries about the pandemic, harsh and warm parenting practices, and child CP and CU traits. Although more parental worries were not directly related to parenting practices, more worry about COVID-19 was specifically related to higher levels of child CP, particularly parental worries about themselves or family members contracting the virus. Our findings add to a growing literature demonstrating the burden that the pandemic has placed on families and its implications for children’s mental health.
vorige artikel Longitudinal Relations Between Parental Strain, Parent–Child Relationship Quality, and Child Well-Being During the Unfolding COVID-19 Pandemic
volgende artikel The Role of Comorbid Depression in Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcomes
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Demographic and study characteristics for the two sites are presented in Table S1. There were more Black and Hispanic families and fewer White families recruited in Site 2 [blind for review] than Site 1 [blind for review], more parents from Site 2 than Site 1 reported having a high school education or less, and parents from Site 2 had significantly lower monthly income and were younger in age than parents from Site 1. Site was thus included as a covariate in all study models
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits
Auteurs
Rebecca Waller
Tralucia Powell
Yuheiry Rodriguez
Natalie Corbett
Samantha Perlstein
Lauren K. White
Ran Barzilay
Nicholas J. Wagner
Publicatiedatum
06-01-2021
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 6/2021
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-01109-y

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