Parenting behaviors and children's prosociality (i.e., voluntary behaviors intended to benefit others) are linked across development. Contextual risk and environmental stressors may undermine parenting behaviors known to promote children's prosocial behavior. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique context in which to examine how stress and contextual risk disrupt parenting practices and the development of children's prosociality over time. To explore the associations between pandemic-related adversity, parenting practices, and child prosocial behavior, we used survey data from 303 families (child Mage = 6.43; 51.4% female, 48.6% male; 65.7% White) who participated in a three-wave longitudinal study during the first year of the pandemic. Families were recruited from two northeastern cities in the United States. Growth mixture modeling identified two groups of parents who varied in their experience of pandemic-related adversity. The high-adversity group reported significantly more symptoms of depression and anxiety, parental burnout, and pandemic-related worries than the low-adversity group. At baseline, parents in the high-adversity group reported harsher parenting and perceived less prosocial behavior in their children. Across the full sample, there were no significant changes in harsh parenting and parental perceptions of child's prosociality across the first year of the pandemic. However, within the high-adversity group, increases in harsh parenting were related to reductions in children's prosociality over time. Results are interpreted in the context of family systems theory and contribute to our understanding of the links between parenting and children's prosociality and patterns of risk and resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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与流行病相关的逆境、严厉的养育方式和童年中后期亲社会性的发展之间的前瞻性联系。


养育行为和儿童的亲社会性（即旨在造福他人的自愿行为）在整个发展过程中相互关联。背景风险和环境压力可能会破坏已知可促进儿童亲社会行为的养育行为。 COVID-19 大流行提供了一个独特的背景，可以在其中研究压力和背景风险如何随着时间的推移破坏育儿实践和儿童亲社会性的发展。为了探索与大流行相关的逆境、养育方式和儿童亲社会行为之间的关联，我们使用了参与三波研究的 303 个家庭（儿童法师 = 6.43；51.4% 女性，48.6% 男性；65.7% 白人）的调查数据。大流行第一年的纵向研究。家庭是从美国东北部的两个城市招募的。增长混合模型确定了两组父母，他们在与大流行相关的逆境中的经历各不相同。与低逆境组相比，高逆境组报告的抑郁和焦虑、父母倦怠以及与流行病相关的担忧的症状明显更多。在基线时，高逆境组的父母报告说，他们的养育方式更加严厉，并且认为孩子的亲社会行为较少。在整个样本中，在大流行的第一年，严厉的养育方式和父母对孩子亲社会性的看法没有显着变化。然而，在高逆境组中，严厉养育方式的增加与儿童亲社会性随着时间的推移而减少有关。研究结果在家庭系统理论的背景下进行了解释，有助于我们理解在 COVID-19 大流行背景下养育子女与儿童的亲社会性以及风险和复原力模式之间的联系。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。