Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo.28.1.4
Parenthood in the time of a pandemic COVID-19: A perspective of the parents of early and preschool age children
Adrijana Višnjić-Jevtić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-7472
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Visković
orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-044X
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia
Abstract
The presumed lifestyle changes due to the Covid-19 pandemic are the reason for research into the self-assessment of parents of early and preschool children about parental behaviors during lockdown in the first wave of a pandemic. The aim was to explore the quality of parenting through joint activities and behaviors towards children. A relative majority of survey participants estimate that they have not significantly changed individual activities with children (conversation, storytelling, physical expressions of love) while a quarter of parents estimate that they do so more often than before. Nearly half of parents estimate that they play more with their children than before the lockdown. Family relationships have been singled out as the most important dimension of parenting. Age, level of formal education and marital status of research participants as a predictor explains only 2.3 % of the variability of parental self-assessment, so it is reasonable to assume the existence of other, more significant predictors of parenting quality. The collected data indicate the advantages (large sample and fast implementation) and disadvantages (specificity of the sample) of online research. The size of the sample indicates the involvement of parents on social networks, which indicates the possibility of further research on parenting.
Keywords
family relationships; online research; parental behaviours; parenting quality
Hrčak ID:
260362
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Publication date:
14.7.2021.
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