The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in a large amount of emotionally charged messaging that is believed to have a tremendous psychological impact, particularly on children and early adolescents. The present study examined the relationships between children’s exposure to COVID-19 news, children’s emotional responses to the news, parental styles of mediating COVID-19 news, and children’s emotional functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy in April 2020. An online survey was completed by 277 parents (Mage = 43.36; SDage = 4.76; mothers = 89.5%) with children aged 6 to 13 years. Regression analyses showed that the parental active mediation style was associated with higher emotion regulation and lower lability/negativity, whereas the restrictive style was associated with higher lability/negativity and the social coviewing style was associated with lower emotion regulation. The results provide evidence for how adults using an active style can mediate messages to reduce children’s emotional difficulties during events with high emotional involvement.
Parental Mediation of COVID-19 News and Children’s Emotion Regulation during Lockdown / Morelli, M.; Graziano, F.; Chirumbolo, A.; Baiocco, R.; Longobardi, E.; Trumello, C.; Babore, A.; Cattelino, E.. - In: JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES. - ISSN 1062-1024. - (2022), p. 1-13. [10.1007/s10826-022-02266-5]
Parental Mediation of COVID-19 News and Children’s Emotion Regulation during Lockdown
Morelli M.Primo
Conceptualization
;Chirumbolo A.Methodology
;Baiocco R.Writing – Review & Editing
;Longobardi E.Writing – Review & Editing
;Babore A.Penultimo
Writing – Review & Editing
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2022
Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in a large amount of emotionally charged messaging that is believed to have a tremendous psychological impact, particularly on children and early adolescents. The present study examined the relationships between children’s exposure to COVID-19 news, children’s emotional responses to the news, parental styles of mediating COVID-19 news, and children’s emotional functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy in April 2020. An online survey was completed by 277 parents (Mage = 43.36; SDage = 4.76; mothers = 89.5%) with children aged 6 to 13 years. Regression analyses showed that the parental active mediation style was associated with higher emotion regulation and lower lability/negativity, whereas the restrictive style was associated with higher lability/negativity and the social coviewing style was associated with lower emotion regulation. The results provide evidence for how adults using an active style can mediate messages to reduce children’s emotional difficulties during events with high emotional involvement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
