How Super Skills for Life may help children to cope with the COVID-19: Psychological impact and coping styles after the program

IF 0.8 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Revista de Psicologia Clinica con Ninos y Adolescentes Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.21134/RPCNA.2020.MON.2048
M. Orgilés, J. Espada, A. Morales
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As this is the first time that a pandemic has occurred in our recent history, preventive interventions for children´s emotional problems during confinement were not planned. A main goal of Super Skills for Life Program (SSL) is to provide children with skills to build emotional resilience and coping strategies for daily and difficult life situations, so examining how the program may help children to face the COVID-19 situation could be appropriate. The aim of this research was to compare parents’ perception of immediate psychological reactions to confinement and coping styles in children who received the SSL program before home confinement (n = 48) with an equivalent sample of children who did not attend the program (n = 48). Another objective was to study the relationship between children’s immediate psychological reactions to confinement and their coping styles. Parents (n = 96) completed an online survey providing information on sociodemographic variables, children’s immediate psychological reactions (anxiety/activation, mood, sleep, behavioral alterations, eating and cognitive alterations), and children’s coping styles (task-oriented, emotion-oriented, and avoidance-oriented strategies). Results indicated that the control group presented more symptoms of anxiety (p ≤ .001), worse mood (p ≤ .001), more sleep problems (p ≤ .01), and more cognitive alterations (p ≤ .01) during home confinement than children who received the program. Children in the control group were also more likely to use emotion-oriented strategies (p = .001), which were associated with presenting more psychological alterations. Although the SSL program was not created specifically for coping with the COVID-19 situation, it seems to provide children with skills to cope with this unexpected event.
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超级生活技能如何帮助儿童应对COVID-19:项目后的心理影响和应对方式
由于这是我们近代史上第一次发生流行病,因此没有计划对儿童在禁闭期间的情绪问题进行预防性干预。超级生活技能计划(SSL)的主要目标是为儿童提供建立情绪恢复能力和应对日常和困难生活情况的策略的技能,因此研究该计划如何帮助儿童面对新冠肺炎情况可能是合适的。本研究的目的是比较在家庭禁闭前接受SSL计划的儿童(n=48)与未参加该计划的同等样本儿童(n=48)的父母对禁闭的即时心理反应的感知和应对方式。另一个目的是研究儿童对禁闭的即时心理反应与其应对方式之间的关系。父母(n=96)完成了一项在线调查,提供了有关社会人口统计学变量、儿童即时心理反应(焦虑/激活、情绪、睡眠、行为改变、饮食和认知改变)以及儿童应对方式(任务导向、情绪导向和避避导向策略)的信息。结果表明,与接受该项目的儿童相比,对照组在家庭禁闭期间表现出更多的焦虑症状(p≤.001)、更差的情绪(p≤0.001)、更多的睡眠问题(p≤.01)和更多的认知改变(p≤0.01)。对照组的儿童也更有可能使用情绪导向策略(p=0.001),这与表现出更多的心理变化有关。虽然SSL计划不是专门为应对新冠肺炎情况而创建的,但它似乎为儿童提供了应对这一突发事件的技能。
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