id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-322348-8opy5z9h Morelli, Mara Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Influence of Parenting Distress and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Children’s Emotional Well-Being 2020-10-06 .txt text/plain 7098 309 46 Within the Social Cognitive Theory framework, a path model in which parenting self-efficacy and parental regulatory emotional self-efficacy mediated the relationship between parents' psychological distress and both children's emotional regulation, and children's lability/negativity, was investigated. (2020) in Italy showed that it was the parenting stress related to the health emergency, the pandemic, and the lockdown that increased children's psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems. For this reason, this study focused on identifying which parental psychological variables can mediate the relationship between parents' psychological distress during the pandemic and the lockdown and their children's emotional regulation, in order to understand which possible intervention should be implemented to ameliorate families' well-being. A SEM was employed to test the hypothesized mediation model in which parenting self-efficacy and parents' regulatory emotional self-efficacy (related to the COVID-19 lockdown) mediated the relationship between parents' psychological distress and both children's emotional regulation and children's lability/negativity. ./cache/cord-322348-8opy5z9h.txt ./txt/cord-322348-8opy5z9h.txt