Objective: 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers who are facing high stress levels and decreased emotional well-being may parent their children differently. Certain children are experiencing greater fear in response to COVID-19, and research is needed to identify parenting behaviors significantly linked with children's COVID-19 fear. The purpose of this article was to evaluate whether the association between parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear could be explained by parents' COVID-19 information management and emotional well-being.

Methods: 

Participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. The sample consisted of 595 caregivers of children during the COVID-19 pandemic; 40.0% men, 69.2% non-Latinx White, 12.1% Black, 10.1% Latinx, 6.6% Asian, and <2% others. Children had an average age of 11.3 years. Parents completed self-report measures.

Results: 

The bootstrapped confidence interval (0.040, 0.148) for the indirect effect (0.090) revealed that parent emotional well-being significantly mediated the relation between parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear. In addition, parent management of children's COVID-19 knowledge significantly mediated the relation between parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear.

Conclusion: 

We found that the combined effect of parents' emotional well-being and parents' management of children's COVID-19 knowledge significantly mediated the positive relation between parenting stress and children's COVID-19 fear. Based on our findings, once parents' parenting stress is decreased and their well-being increases, parents may be more likely to provide children with developmentally appropriate and accurate COVID-19 information.

中文翻译：

---

育儿压力与幸福感、COVID-19 信息管理和儿童对 COVID-19 的恐惧之间的关系

客观的： 

在 COVID-19 大流行期间，面临高压力和情绪健康下降的看护人可能会以不同的方式养育他们的孩子。某些儿童对 COVID-19 的反应更加恐惧，需要进行研究以确定与儿童对 COVID-19 的恐惧显着相关的育儿行为。本文的目的是评估父母的 COVID-19 信息管理和情绪健康是否可以解释育儿压力与儿童 COVID-19 恐惧之间的关联。

方法： 

参与者是通过 Amazon Mechanical Turk 招募的。样本包括 COVID-19 大流行期间的 595 名儿童看护者；40.0% 男性、69.2% 非拉丁裔白人、12.1% 黑人、10.1% 拉丁裔、6.6% 亚裔和 <2% 其他人。儿童的平均年龄为 11.3 岁。父母完成了自我报告措施。

结果： 

间接效应 (0.090) 的自举置信区间 (0.040, 0.148) 表明，父母的情绪幸福感显着调节了养育压力与儿童 COVID-19 恐惧之间的关系。此外，父母对儿童 COVID-19 知识的管理显着调节了育儿压力与儿童 COVID-19 恐惧之间的关系。

结论： 

我们发现，父母的情绪健康和父母对儿童 COVID-19 知识的管理的综合影响显着调节了育儿压力与儿童 COVID-19 恐惧之间的正相关关系。根据我们的研究结果，一旦父母的育儿压力减轻并且他们的幸福感增加，父母可能更有可能为孩子提供适合其发育和准确的 COVID-19 信息。