A Double ABC-X Model of Family Stress and Adaptation of Asian Parents

This study examined a moderated mediation model examining parent stress from the pile-up of pandemic-related stressors informed by the Double ABCX theoretical model of family stress and adaptation. Participants included a subset (n = 25346) of nine Asian countries’ (China, N = 5387; India, N = 4892; Indonesia, N = 3651; Malaysia, N = 3768; Philippines, N = 4401; Mongolia, N = 2658; Pakistan, N = 4836; Singapore, N = 3209; Bangladesh, N = 4625) of the Covid Family Life Study. The results revealed that family and relationship satisfaction were positively associated with stress at low, moderate, and high levels of family resilience beliefs, with the strongest association for individuals with low family resilience beliefs. However, both family and relationship satisfaction did not mediate the association between stressor pile-up and stress across all levels of family resilience beliefs. Implications of these results for interventions aiming to foster parental well-being in disaster contexts were discussed.