TY  - JOUR
A1  - Li, Jianghong
A1  - Bünning, Mareike
A1  - Kaiser, Till
A1  - Hipp, Lena
T1  - Who suffered most?
BT  - parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
JF  - Journal of family research
N2  - Objective: 
This study examines gender and socioeconomic inequalities in parental psychological wellbeing (parenting stress and psychological distress) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

Background: 
The dramatic shift of childcare and schooling responsibility from formal institutions to private households during the pandemic has put families under enormous stress and raised concerns about caregivers' health and wellbeing. Despite the overwhelming media attention to families’ wellbeing, to date limited research has examined parenting stress and parental psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in Germany.

Method:
We analyzed four waves of panel data (N= 1,771) from an opt-in online survey, which was conducted between March 2020 and April 2021. Multivariable OLS regressions were used to estimate variations in the pandemic's effects on parenting stress and psychological distress by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

Results:
Overall, levels of parenting stress and psychological distress increased during the pandemic. During the first and third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, mothers, parents with children younger than 11 years, parents with two or more children, parents working from home as well as parents with financial insecurity experienced higher parenting stress than other sociodemographic groups. Moreover, women, respondents with lower incomes, single parents, and parents with younger children experienced higher levels of psychological distress than other groups.

Conclusion:
Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in parents' psychological wellbeing increased among the study participants during the pandemic.
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - parenting stress
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - mental health
KW  - psychological distress
KW  - Germany
KW  - children
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-704
SN  - 2699-2337
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 281
EP  - 309
PB  - University of Bamberg Press
CY  - Bamberg
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jacobs, Ingo
A1  - Wollny, Anna
A1  - Seidler, Juliana
A1  - Wochatz, Germar
T1  - A trait emotional intelligence perspective on schema modes
JF  - Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
N2  - Schema modes (ormodes) are a key concept in the theory underlying schema therapy. Modes have rarely been related to established models of personality traits. The present study thus investigates the associations between trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and 14 modes, and tests a global TEI-mode factors-general psychological distress mediation model. The study draws on self-report data from 173 inpatients from a German clinic for psychosomatic medicine. Global TEI correlated positively with both healthy modes (happy child and healthy adult) and negatively with 10 maladaptive modes. When modes were regressed on the four TEI factors, six (emotionality), five (well-being), four (sociability), and four (self-control) significant partial effects on 10 modes emerged. In the parallel mediation model, the mode factors internalization and compulsivity fully mediated the global TEI-general psychological distress link. Implications of the results for the integration of modes with traits in general and with TEI in particular as well as implications of low TEI as a transdiagnostic feature of personality malfunctioning are discussed.
KW  - externalization
KW  - internalization
KW  - level of personality functioning
KW  - mentalization
KW  - psychological distress
KW  - schema modes
KW  - trait emotional
KW  - intelligence
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12670
SN  - 0036-5564
SN  - 1467-9450
VL  - 62
IS  - 2
SP  - 227
EP  - 236
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -