Parenting and child well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak: The importance of marital adjustment and parental self-efficacy

The pandemic situation of COVID-19 has introduced new challenges on family routines, affecting interpersonal relationships, which may have detrimental consequences to child well-being. current study aimed examine the direct effects marital adjustment socioemotional and test if parental self-efficacy mediated this association during home confinement due COVID-19. A final sample 163 caregivers was recruited online period. On average children were 6 years-old (SD=2.92; 44.8% girls). Caregivers their in for an 31 days (SD=12.08). Most couples had been married or living together 14 years (SD=5.77) a university degree, mostly metropolitan areas. answer set measures assessing adjustment, self-efficacy, competence behavior. Findings depicted effect positive between satisfaction negatively associated with anger-aggression. Parental positively child’s: social competence, anger-aggression, anxiety-withdrawal. Indirect that child’s anger-aggression anxiety-withdrawal through self-efficacy. Thus, higher more turn competence. are relevant state art, given lack information regarding imposed isolation it