Adrenocortical and psychosocial responses of families in Jordan to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Child Dev
; 92(5): e798-e816, 2021 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1393847
ABSTRACT
This study of 52 predominantly lower income Jordanian and Syrian families with young children (31 girls; Mage = 53.37 months, SD = 3.53) in Jordan began in 2019, before the pandemic. Families were followed to explore stress physiology, family functioning, and mental health over the first 9 months of the pandemic. Mothers reported less adaptive coping and more negative changes to family life in June 2020 when their children had poorer behavioral self-regulation and more behavior problems, and when families had lower income, in 2019. More negative changes to family life predicted greater hair cortisol concentrations in children in June 2020, and more negative changes and less adaptive coping predicted worse child and mother psychosocial adjustment in December 2020.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Child Dev
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cdev.13662
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