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  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic significantly heightened parental stress, exacerbated by the demands of home-based education.
  • The controversial decision to reopen schools in person in fall 2020 failed to alleviate parental stress.
  • A stress process perspective suggests that parental stress related to school modality depended on individual COVID-19 concerns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between school modality, parental COVID-19 concerns, and parental stress during the fall 2020 school semester.
  • To understand why school reopening did not improve the mental health of parents in the United States.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of survey data collected in November 2020.
  • Examining the congruence between parents' concerns about COVID-19 and their children's school learning modalities (in-person vs. virtual).

Main Results:

  • A mismatch between parental COVID-19 concerns and their children's school modality was linked to increased parental stress.
  • Parents without COVID-19 concerns experienced the least stress with in-person learning and the most with virtual learning.
  • Parents with COVID-19 concerns showed the inverse pattern, with virtual learning associated with lower stress.

Conclusions:

  • The lack of alignment between school reopening policies and parental concerns about COVID-19 contributed to persistent parental stress.
  • In-person learning was frequently associated with higher stress levels for parents concerned about COVID-19, explaining the limited mental health improvements post-reopening.