scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects of Changes in Children’s Daily-Lives and Concerns Regarding Infection on Maternal Parenting Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-456
Author(s):  
Eun Jung Bae ◽  
Kyung Ja Park
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Maternal Parenting ◽  
Falling Asleep ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Maternal Parenting Stress ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Sleeping Habits

Objectives: This study examines the changes in children’s daily lives and experiences caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Further, it discusses the effects of changes in children’s daily lives and mother’s concerns regarding COVID-19 on mothers’ parenting stress during the pandemic.Methods: A survey were conducted on the mothers of 3-to 5-year-old children through an online community site for mothers. A total of 219 mothers clarified their children’s daily lifestyles before and after the outbreak of COVID-19, their concerns regarding infection, and the pandemic’s effect on maternal parenting stress. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis, and multiple regressions analysis.Results: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some changes in children’s daily lifestyles, such as their sleeping habits (going-to-bed time, wake-up time, ease of falling asleep, and waking up in the middle of sleep), eating (mealtime regularity and instant food use), and main caregivers at home. Delays in their children’s wake-up times and remaining the main daytime caregivers decreased mothers’ parenting stress, whereas reductions in children’s quality of sleep in terms of difficulty in falling asleep and waking up in the middle of sleep, and mothers’ concern regarding COVID-19 infection increased mother’s parenting stress.Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic caused some changes to children’s daily lifestyles and maternal concern regarding infection, which significantly affected maternal parenting stress. However, there are many children whose daily lives have not been significantly affected. Further study is required to examine short term as well as long term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s development.

scholarly journals Parenting stress and DNA methylation among African Americans in the InterGEN Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 328-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Wright ◽  
Yunfeng Huang ◽  
Qin Hui ◽  
Kevin Newhall ◽  
Cindy Crusto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Mixed Models ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
African Ancestry ◽  
Maternal Parenting ◽  
Maternal Parenting Stress ◽  
Methylation Patterns ◽  
The Relationship

IntroductionGeneral life stress has been associated with altered DNA methylation in individuals of African Ancestry, although the relationship between parenting stress and DNA methylation has not been described. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between maternal parenting stress and DNA methylation among African Ancestry mother-child dyads.MethodsWe evaluated epigenome-wide DNA methylation relative to parenting stress in 74 mother-child dyads using linear mixed models.ResultsSignificant variation in maternal DNA methylation at 95 CpG sites was associated with level of parenting stress. Notably, we identified a change in DNA methylation associated with poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1, which plays a key role in stress signaling. We did not identify any significant variation in child DNA methylation related to maternal parenting stress.ConclusionsHowever, DNA methylation patterns observed in children mirrored patterns observed in their mothers. The results suggest that differential maternal DNA methylation is associated with higher levels of parenting stress.

Influences of Maternal Parenting Stress on Child Behavior Problems: Examining Harsh and Positive Parenting as Mediators

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110562
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Flannery ◽  
Samantha R. Awada ◽  
Elizabeth C. Shelleby
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Child Behavior Problems ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Harsh Parenting ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Maternal Parenting ◽  
Maternal Parenting Stress ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Extant research demonstrates associations between parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing problems, with evidence that parenting behaviors may mediate these associations; however, few studies have been longitudinal. The current study tested whether harsh and positive parenting mediated associations between maternal parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing problems. Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were utilized, with 2,606 families who completed the year nine wave included (37% less than high school; 60.2% married/cohabitating; 50% Black, non-Hispanic; 24% Hispanic; and 26% White, non-Hispanic). Analyses revealed parenting stress at age three was significantly associated with higher child internalizing and externalizing problems at age nine. Further, positive but not harsh parenting mediated the link between parenting stress and externalizing problems. Parenting did not mediate the association between parenting stress and internalizing problems. Findings suggest harsh and positive parenting differentially explains associations between parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing problems.

Maternal parenting stress and its correlates in families with a young child with cerebral palsy

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Glenn ◽  
C. Cunningham ◽  
H. Poole ◽  
D. Reeves ◽  
M. Weindling
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Young Child ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Maternal Parenting ◽  
Maternal Parenting Stress
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