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Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study.

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Cassinat, Jenna R., Whiteman, Shawn D., Serang, Sarfaraz, Dotterer, Aryn M., Mustillo, Sarah A., Maggs, Jennifer L., Kelly, Brian C.·2021·Developmental Psychology

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The purpose of this article was to explore how family chaos, parenting processes, parent-child relationship qualities, and sibling relationship qualities changed before versus the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included one parent and two adolescent-aged children from 682 families (2,046 participants). Parents and youth participating in an ongoing longitudinal study in five Midwestern states in the United States completed an additional web-based assessment of family processes and family relationship qualities during the May-June 2020 pandemic-related shutdowns. A series of two-wave latent change score models indicated that family chaos increased with the onset of pandemic-related shutdowns and that the level of chaos within a family during the shutdowns had implications for changes in several parenting processes and family relationship qualities. Specifically, higher levels of family chaos during the pandemic mitigated observed increases in parental knowledge and were associated with declines in parental autonomy granting. Family chaos during pandemic-related shutdowns also was associated with increases in maternal-child conflict, paternal-child conflict, and sibling conflict as well as decreases in paternal-child intimacy, sibling intimacy, and sibling disclosure. Overall, consistent with a family stress perspective, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased strain and commotion within many households, and these changes had implications for multiple family relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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  • Some prior research showed differences between adolescents' and parents' reports on family life and adolescent wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “For example, some prior research showed differences between adolescents’ and parents’ reports on family life and adolescent wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic (Cassinat et al., 2021; Li et al., 2021).”

    From Adolescent Loneliness and Negative Affect during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Extraversion and Neuroticism (2023) · cites this paper as Cassinat et al., 2021

    The Method > Measures section says parents reported family chaos while adolescents reported parent-child intimacy and conflict; the Results > Parent-Child Relationship Qualities section analyzes changes in adolescents’ reports. Neither section compares parents’ and adolescents’ reports of the same aspect of family life or adolescent wellbeing. Searches for differences and discrepancies between their reports found no such finding in our copy; page numbers were not available. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Cassinat, J. R., Whiteman, S. D., Serang, S., Dotterer, A. M., Mustillo, S. A., Maggs, J. L., & Kelly, B. C.
Affiliations
  • Utah State University (US)
  • University of Notre Dame (US)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
Venue
Developmental Psychology
Published
2021-10
Volume
57
Issue
10
Pages
1597-1610
ISSN
  • 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0599
OpenAlex
W3215512325
Cited by
146
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 2
FWCI
39.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (R01AA025331)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
Keywords
household chaos, COVID-19 pandemic, family relationships, parenting processes, parent-child relationship, sibling relationships, parental knowledge, parent-child conflict, sibling conflict, family intimacy, family stress, adolescents, pandemic lockdown
MeSH terms
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adolescent, Aged, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Pandemics

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