Abstract

LOPES, Carolline; CUNHA, Ana; CAMPOS, Julia  and  ALBUQUERQUE, Karolina. Parenting competence in the pandemic: parents of children hearing and no-hearing impairment. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.3, pp.1019-1030.  Epub Dec 31, 2023. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/23psd240319.

Parents of young children, especially with disabilities, were exposed to new stressors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, with impacts on their mental health, their parent-child relationship and their sense of parenting competence, which relates to self-esteem and well-being in parental educational practices. The aim of this study was to investigate the parenting sense of competence of parents of children with and without hearing impairment during the pandemic period. A non-probabilistic sample with 74 parents organized into two groups (37 children with and 37 without disability) answered the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale via Google form. Descriptive and inferential analyzes were used to describe and analyze the sense of parental competence by comparing groups. Significant differences were observed between the groups, when parents of children with disabilities showed lower scores on the sense of parental competence. Scientific evidence on the negative outcomes of the pandemic on the sense of parental competence of parents of children with hearing impairment can support the care of this population.

Keywords : Parenting; Hearing impairment; COVID-19.

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