Parents’ Self-efficacy and Children’s Behavior in the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece

IF 1.1 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Care in Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI:10.1080/13575279.2022.2126438

Anastasia Vatou

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This exploratory study examines parents’ views of their parenting self-efficacy and children’s behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece. One hundred and fifty-nine parents whose children were 3–5 years old completed an online survey. The Short-Form of the Self-Efficacy for Parenting Tasks Index-Toddler Scale (SEPTI-TS) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) were used to assess parents’ self-efficacy and children’s behaviour problems, respectively. Data were collected from the 1st of April to the 31st of May 2020. Results from the descriptive statistical analysis revealed that young children did not show any behavioural challenges during this period, whereas parents experienced low levels of self-efficacy for their parenting skills, especially on discipline and routines. The results from MANOVA analysis demonstrated that a child’s total difficulties score impacted on a parent’s self-efficacy. The findings suggest that intervention programmes and policies that focus on parents’ support can enhance parents’ self-efficacy during times of crisis.

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希腊第一波新冠肺炎疫情中父母自我效能感与儿童行为

摘要：这项探索性研究调查了希腊第一波新冠肺炎疫情期间父母对其养育自我效能和儿童行为的看法。159名孩子年龄在3-5岁的父母完成了一项在线调查。采用父母任务自我效能指数幼儿量表（SEPTI-TS）和优势与困难问卷（SDQ）分别评估父母的自我效能感和儿童的行为问题。数据收集时间为2020年4月1日至5月31日。描述性统计分析的结果显示，在此期间，幼儿没有表现出任何行为挑战，而父母在育儿技能方面的自我效能感较低，尤其是在纪律和日常生活方面。MANOVA分析的结果表明，孩子的总困难分数会影响父母的自我效能感。研究结果表明，以父母支持为重点的干预计划和政策可以提高父母在危机时期的自我效能。

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Child Care in Practice Nursing-Community and Home Care

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3.30

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： Child Care in Practice is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for professionals working in all disciplines in the provision of children’s services, including social work, social care, health care, medicine, psychology, education, the police and probationary services, and solicitors and barristers working in the family law and youth justice sectors. The strategic aims and objectives of the journal are: • To develop the knowledge base of practitioners, managers and other professionals responsible for the delivery of professional child care services. The journal seeks to contribute to the achievement of quality services and the promotion of the highest standards. • To achieve an equity of input from all disciplines working with children. The multi-disciplinary nature of the journal reflects that the key to many successful outcomes in the child care field lies in the close co-operation between different disciplines. • To raise awareness of often-neglected issues such as marginalization of ethnic minorities and problems consequent upon poverty and disability. • To keep abreast of and continue to influence local and international child care practice in response to emerging policy. • To include the views of those who are in receipt of multi-disciplinary child care services. • To welcome submissions on promising practice developments and the findings from new research to highlight the breadth of the work of the journal’s work.