Ted Brown, Malcolm Boyle, Brett Williams, Andrew Molloy, Lisa McKenna, Claire Palermo, Liz Molloy
Factor structure of the Communicator Styles Measure (CSM) when used with undergraduate health science students
Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
covid19 pandemic posed many challenges especially families public scientific community currently discussing extent school closings worsened existing social differences especially regard childrens academic socioemotional development time parents manage childcare home schooling alongside jobs personal burdens posed pandemic parents possibilities meeting cognitive emotional challenges might also depend different conditions families reason present paper investigates structural process characteristics family well childrens parents psychological characteristics predict parents assess ability support childs learning homeschooling well parents perceived emotional stress caused school closure study analyses data newborn cohort study german national educational panel study two dependent variables selfassessment abilities perceived stress measured covid19 pandemic first school closure germany time children cohort attending second grade besides number control variables including childs struggle home schooling families structural characteristics socioeconomic status ses education process characteristics home learning environment hle parents psychological characteristics preceding psychological stress childs psychological characteristics selfregulation schoolrelated independence earlier waves included predictors results structural equation models show perceived stress associated structural factors preceding psychological stress parents parents higher preceding stress reported higher perceived stress interestingly highereducated parents also reported stress lower educated parents pandemic effect way around ses parents lower ses reported stress parents higher ses selfreported abilities support learning child seemed mainly predicted parents education well preceding psychological stress sum results identify important aspects determine parents handle challenges school closures especially socially disadvantaged families carry burden pandemic