COVID-19 pandemisinin çocuklar üzerindeki psikolojik etkileri: Bioekolojik perspektiften bir ‎inceleme

The current study aimed to examine the emotional and ‎behavioral effects of the ‎pandemic on children from the framework of bioecological ‎theory. According to ‎Bronfenbrenner's model, the study examined how the child's ‎emotion regulation ability, ‎which is individual differences, family protective factors in the ‎microsystem and ‎school-family relations in the mesosystem affect the child's ‎emotional and behavioral ‎problems during COVID-19. Two models were used: the first model examined the ‎problems that existed ‎before the pandemic and the second model examined the ‎problems caused by the ‎pandemic. It was predicted the effect of variables would ‎increase as we move away ‎from the child's distant environment, and all factors would ‎negatively predict ‎children's problems. 238 mothers with children aged between 4-11 ‎years participated as informants for their children. Informants were asked to complete ‎the Emotion Regulation Scale, Family ‎Protective Factors Questionnaire, School ‎Interaction Questionnaire, Strengths and ‎Difficulties Questionnaire, and Parental ‎Perception of the Emotional and Behavioral ‎Effects of the Quarantine on Their ‎Children in the online platform. According to the results of the study using hierarchical ‎regression analysis, only emotion regulation predicted the problems that existed before ‎the pandemic in model 1. In model 2, emotion regulation and family protective factors ‎negatively predicted pandemic-related problems. School-family interaction did not ‎have any effect on children's problems. The findings obtained provide important data ‎on the effects and mechanisms of individual differences and environmental factors on ‎problems that may arise in children especially in times of crisis and disasters. ‎