Assesment of parent-child relationship in Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

• COVID-19 pandemic affected social life around the world. • In many countries, parents and children spent more time at home and together. • Parent-child interaction was increased in the pandemic. • Assessing parent–child relationship in the pandemic is important. COVID-19, which emerged in 2019 and spread rapidly around the world, has made a great change in the daily lives of individuals and has created a basis for social-emotional-psychological problems. It is thought that the individuals that are affected by this situation the most are children, and therefore it will be significant to re-examine the factors of the epidemic experienced today affecting the family-child relationship. Accordingly, present study aims to evaluate the parent–child relationship during the pandemic process in terms of a number of variables. This is a study aimed at describing the relationship of parents with children between the ages of 4–6, with their children during the Covid-19 process, based on the views of parents. Study group of this research consists of 219 mothers and fathers who have children between age 4–6 and living is different cities of Turkey in Covid-19 process. “Demographic information form” and “Child Parent Relationship Inventory” were used as data collection tools in the study. In the analysis of the data, frequency, percentage, standard deviation, t -test and one-way variance analysis (One-Way Anova) statistical techniques were used. In conclusion, as the result of the study conducted to determine the mother-father-child relationship in Covid-19 process, it was determined that there is no significant difference by age variable in fathers' PCRI total and sub-dimensions, there is a significant difference between the age of the mothers and the role sub-dimension, there was no significant difference between fathers' education levels and PCRI and its sub-dimensions, however, there is a significant difference in Discipline, Autonomy, Participation, and Role sub-dimensions according to the education level of mothers and there is a significant difference between mothers and fathers 'family income variable and fathers' satisfaction subscale. Also, no statistically significant difference was found in the variables of how many days the families were in quarantine during the quarantine process and the frequency of staying at home/going out. In addition, while there was no difference in the scores of the fathers regarding who is taking care of the child during the quarantine process, a statistically significant difference was found between the scores obtained by the mothers in the support sub-dimension of the PCRI scale.