Preparing for Future Adversities: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia for Promoting Relational Resilience in Families

EJ Biden; CJ Greenwood; JA Macdonald; EA Spry; P Letcher; D Hutchinson; GJ Youssef; JE McIntosh; CA Olsson

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Preparing for Future Adversities: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia for Promoting Relational Resilience in Families

EJ Biden, CJ Greenwood, JA Macdonald, EA Spry, P Letcher, D Hutchinson, GJ Youssef, JE McIntosh, CA Olsson

Frontiers in Psychiatry | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.717811

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Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed considerable pressure on families, testing the quality of relationships and the strength of social support within and beyond the family network. However, little is known about the pre-pandemic factors that predict family relational resilience and social functioning during times of natural disaster or global crisis. Here we use data from one of Australia's longest running studies of social and emotional development to examine the nature and timing of possible relational and social support intervention aimed at preparing families for future adversities. Methods: Data were from the Australian Temperament Project Generation 3 (ATPG3) Study, a populati..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Data collection for the ATP study has been supported primarily through Australian grants from the Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital Research Foundation, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, the Australian Research Council (ARC), and the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Funding for the current work was supported by grants from the ARC [DP130101459; DP160103160; DP180102447], the NHMRC [APP1082406], and for the COVID-19 wave, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, Morgan Stanley and the Vincent Chiodo Charitable Trust. CO and DH were supported by NHMRC investigator grants [APP1175086; APP1197488]. EB was supported by a Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship.