The Emotional Vaccine: Maternal Caregiving in Infancy Shaped Future Preschoolers' Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic

IF 3.9 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Child development Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI:10.1111/cdev.14250

Yael Schlesinger, Yael Paz, Sofie Rousseau, Naama Atzaba-Poria, Tahl I. Frenkel

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The present study assessed both concurrent and early influences of the maternal caregiving environment to examine unique contributions of each to variation in children's emotional responses to COVID-19 pandemic. Preschoolers (3–5 years; M = 4.12, SD = 0.49) previously assessed in infancy, several years prior to pandemic outbreak, were re-assessed during pandemic-related nationwide lockdown (N = 200; 50% female; 63.5% secular Jews; 2016; 2021). Maternal stress during lockdown significantly moderated (β = 0.13, p < 0.05) and mediated (β = 0.08, p < 0.05) concurrent associations between preschoolers' dose of exposure (DOE) to COVID-19 psychosocial stressors and symptoms. Furthermore, maternal sensitive care observed in infancy significantly moderated future associations between preschoolers' DOE and symptoms (β = −0.16, p < 0.05). Longitudinal protective effects of infant care remained significant after controlling for caregiver stress and behavior during the lockdown.

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情绪疫苗：在COVID-19大流行期间，婴儿时期的母亲照顾塑造了未来学龄前儿童的内化症状。

本研究评估了母亲护理环境的并发和早期影响，以研究每种环境对儿童对COVID-19大流行的情绪反应变化的独特贡献。学龄前儿童(3-5岁；M = 4.12, SD = 0.49)先前在大流行爆发前几年的婴儿期评估，在大流行相关的全国封锁期间重新评估(N = 200；50%的女性;63.5%的世俗犹太人；2016年;2021)。封锁期间母亲的压力显著减轻(β = 0.13, p

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Child development Multiple-

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期刊介绍： As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.