Parenting Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The outbreak of covid-19 pandemic shook the entire globe, it caused public health emergency which forced the governments to enforce lockdown in order to control the vigorous spread of the virus. During these challenging times parenting must have been highly stressful and difficult since they have now to parent the energetic young children who now are locked within the houses. Along with physical health issues the pandemic accelerated mental illness among the parents due to rise in childcare responsibilities and lockdown. The study examined the parental stress experienced by the during the covid-19 lockdown. To examine this survey were collected from parents through snow ball sampling. The sample size of 100 was put into study. The research tools such as correlation, one sample chi-square test and one sample Kolmogorov-simrnov test were used to examine the data. The result revealed that during the pandemic there was an increase in parental stress due to children’ restlessness, which also affected the mental health wellbeing of the parent. Moreover, the study also found out that seeking help regarding parenting with friends and family was helpful and people have started concentrating more on mental health wellbeing in the post-pandemic era.