Journal article
Life course psychosocial precursors of parent mental health resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-decade prospective cohort study
P Letcher, CJ Greenwood, JA Macdonald, J McIntosh, EA Spry, D Hutchinson, M O'Connor, EJ Biden, FL Painter, CM Olsson, J Cleary, KC Thomson, CA Olsson
Journal of Affective Disorders | ELSEVIER | Published : 2023
Abstract
Background: There has been widespread interest in the implications of COVID-19 containment measures on the mental health of parents. Most of this research has focused on risk. Much less is known about resilience; yet such studies are key to protecting populations during major crises. Here we map precursors of resilience using life course data spanning three decades. Methods: The Australian Temperament Project commenced in 1983 and now follows three generations. Parents (N = 574, 59 % mothers) raising young children completed a COVID-19 specific module in the early (May–September 2020) and/or later (October–December, 2021) phases of the pandemic. Decades prior, parents had been assessed acros..
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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 Financial Markets Foundation for Children, 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] .