Primrose Letcher, Christopher J Greenwood, Jacqui A Macdonald, Joanne Ryan, Meredith O'Connor, Kimberly C Thomson, Ebony J Biden, Felicity Painter, Catherine M Olsson, Ben Edwards, Jennifer McIntosh, Elizabeth A Spry, Delyse Hutchinson, Joyce Cleary, Tim Slade, Craig A Olsson
BACKGROUND: We examine precursors of child emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in a prospective intergenerational Australian cohort study. METHODS: Parents (N = 549, 60% mothers) of 934 1-9-year-old children completed a COVID-19 specific module in 2020 and/or 2021. Decades prior, a broad range of individual, relational and contextual factors were assessed during parents' own childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (7-8 to 27-28 years old; 1990-2010) and again when their children were 1 year old (2012-2019)...
May 7, 2024: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines