What Mediates the Effect of Family Disruption in the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Prosocial Behavior

IF 1.2 4区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Claire Hughes, Luca Ronchi, Jean Heng, Chiara Basile, Paola Del Sette, Serena Lecce
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Abstract

Abstract. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children’s social lives, jeopardizing human connections that foster prosocial development. This study of 2,516 families of 3–8-year-olds from six countries (China, Sweden, Australia, Italy, the USA, and the United Kingdom) examined whether children’s understanding or feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated the expected association between COVID-19-related family disruption and children’s prosocial behavior, as indexed by parental ratings. For all six sites, family disruption indirectly predicted reduced prosocial behavior. Negative feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated this association in all sites except China. Contrariwise, understanding of COVID-19 regulations was not implicated in the link between family disruption and reduced prosocial behavior.
新冠肺炎疫情下家庭破裂对儿童亲社会行为的中介作用
摘要在2019冠状病毒病大流行开始时,前所未有的社交距离规则(包括大规模关闭学校)严重限制了儿童的社交生活,损害了促进亲社会发展的人际关系。本研究对来自6个国家(中国、瑞典、澳大利亚、意大利、美国和英国)的2,516个3 - 8岁儿童家庭进行了研究,研究了儿童对COVID-19法规的理解或感受是否介导了COVID-19相关家庭破裂与儿童亲社会行为之间的预期关联(以父母评分为指标)。在所有六个地点,家庭破裂间接预示着亲社会行为的减少。对新冠肺炎法规的负面情绪在除中国以外的所有地区都起到了中介作用。相反,对COVID-19法规的理解与家庭破裂和亲社会行为减少之间的联系无关。
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Social Psychology
Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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