@article{ref1,
title="Risk, emotional support, child abuse potential, and parenting during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic",
journal="Child maltreatment",
year="2023",
author="McGoron, Lucy and Trentacosta, Christopher J. and Wargo Aikins, Julie and Beeghly, Marjorie and Beatty, Jessica R. and Domoff, Sarah E. and Towner, Elizabeth K. and Ondersma, Steven J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation efforts created stress that threatened parent and child well-being. Conditions that increase stress within families heighten the likelihood of child abuse, but social support can mitigate the impact. This short-term investigation considered whether cumulative risk, COVID-19 specific risk, and emotional support (one aspect of social support), were associated with child abuse potential during the pandemic. Additionally, we investigated whether emotional support moderated the association between COVID-19 specific risk and child abuse potential, and associations between child abuse potential and emotionally positive and emotionally negative parenting. Participants included 89 parents, from a metropolitan area with a large number of economically distressed families, who completed online questionnaires. COVID-19 specific risk and emotional support each explained additional variance in child abuse potential beyond cumulative risk, but emotional support did not moderate the association between COVID-19 specific risk and child abuse potential. Consistent with expectations, child abuse potential was negatively associated with emotionally positive parenting and positively associated with emotionally negative parenting practices. <br><br>RESULTS highlight the importance of addressing both risks and supports at multiple levels for parents during times of stress.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-5595",
doi="10.1177/10775595231186645",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10775595231186645"
}