Abstract：
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic led to numerous challenges for child protection professionals (CPPs). However, limited research has investigated the interwoven concepts of coping, resilience, and mental distress among CPPs during COVID-19 on a global scale.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore CPPs\' practice, resilience, and mental distress during COVID-19, the relationship between their resilience and mental distress, the global stability of the Multi-System Model of Resilience (MSMR), and how CPPs\' resilience varied according to the Human Development Index (HDI).
METHODS: Data were collected from 420 CPPs in 57 countries across five continents between July and September 2021. Participants completed an online questionnaire on demographics, resilience, mental distress, coping, and perceptions of child protection during the pandemic in their native languages. The analyses compared the countries grouped according to HDI using means comparisons, correlations, and multiple linear regressions. A two-path analysis was also performed to identify variables associated with behavioral resilience engagement and mental distress.
RESULTS: The findings indicated that CPPs\' perceptions of COVID-19\'s impact on child maltreatment varied in correlation with their country\'s HDI. There were also significant HDI-based differences regarding the perceived opportunity to engage in resilient behavior and its helpfulness. Years of professional experience, internal resilience, and external resilience were shown to be significant predictors of mental distress among CPPs during the pandemic, and resilience mediated how years of experience predicted mental distress.
CONCLUSIONS: This study emphasized the importance of experience and internal resilience for CPPs\' psychological well-being. It also provides empirical evidence to support the MSMR theory on a global scale. Additionally, it demonstrates how the perceived changes in child maltreatment during COVID-19 may be associated with regional HDI. Lastly, the opportunities CPPs had to engage in resilient behavior and how much this helped them was associated with regional HDI, but not in the way originally predicted. Study results also hold implications for how practice and policy may be altered to help CPPs cope better during times of crisis and generally.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore CPPs\' practice, resilience, and mental distress during COVID-19, the relationship between their resilience and mental distress, the global stability of the Multi-System Model of Resilience (MSMR), and how CPPs\' resilience varied according to the Human Development Index (HDI).
METHODS: Data were collected from 420 CPPs in 57 countries across five continents between July and September 2021. Participants completed an online questionnaire on demographics, resilience, mental distress, coping, and perceptions of child protection during the pandemic in their native languages. The analyses compared the countries grouped according to HDI using means comparisons, correlations, and multiple linear regressions. A two-path analysis was also performed to identify variables associated with behavioral resilience engagement and mental distress.
RESULTS: The findings indicated that CPPs\' perceptions of COVID-19\'s impact on child maltreatment varied in correlation with their country\'s HDI. There were also significant HDI-based differences regarding the perceived opportunity to engage in resilient behavior and its helpfulness. Years of professional experience, internal resilience, and external resilience were shown to be significant predictors of mental distress among CPPs during the pandemic, and resilience mediated how years of experience predicted mental distress.
CONCLUSIONS: This study emphasized the importance of experience and internal resilience for CPPs\' psychological well-being. It also provides empirical evidence to support the MSMR theory on a global scale. Additionally, it demonstrates how the perceived changes in child maltreatment during COVID-19 may be associated with regional HDI. Lastly, the opportunities CPPs had to engage in resilient behavior and how much this helped them was associated with regional HDI, but not in the way originally predicted. Study results also hold implications for how practice and policy may be altered to help CPPs cope better during times of crisis and generally.
摘要：
背景：COVID-19大流行给儿童保护专业人员（CPP）带来了许多挑战。然而,有限的研究调查了相互交织的应对概念，弹性，在全球范围内，COVID-19期间CPPs的精神困扰。
目的：本研究旨在探索CPPs的实践，弹性，和COVID-19期间的精神困扰，他们的韧性和精神困扰之间的关系，多系统弹性模型(MSMR)的全局稳定性，以及CPPs的复原力如何根据人类发展指数(HDI)而变化。
方法：数据来自2021年7月至9月五大洲57个国家的420个CPP。参与者完成了一份关于人口统计的在线问卷，弹性，精神痛苦,应对,以及在大流行期间以其母语对儿童保护的看法。分析使用均值比较比较了根据人类发展指数分组的国家，相关性，和多元线性回归。还进行了双路径分析，以确定与行为弹性参与和精神困扰相关的变量。
结果：研究结果表明，CPPs对COVID-19对儿童虐待的影响的看法与其国家的HDI相关。关于参与弹性行为的感知机会及其帮助性，基于HDI的差异也很大。多年的专业经验，内部弹性，和外部弹性被证明是大流行期间CPP精神困扰的重要预测因子，和韧性介导了多年的经验如何预测精神困扰。
结论：这项研究强调了经验和内在韧性对CPPs心理健康的重要性。它还提供了在全球范围内支持MSMR理论的经验证据。此外,它表明COVID-19期间儿童虐待的感知变化可能与区域HDI相关。最后,CPP必须参与弹性行为的机会，这对他们有多大帮助与区域人类发展指数有关，但不是最初预测的方式。研究结果也对如何改变实践和政策以帮助CPP在危机时期和总体上更好地应对具有重要意义。
目的：本研究旨在探索CPPs的实践，弹性，和COVID-19期间的精神困扰，他们的韧性和精神困扰之间的关系，多系统弹性模型(MSMR)的全局稳定性，以及CPPs的复原力如何根据人类发展指数(HDI)而变化。
方法：数据来自2021年7月至9月五大洲57个国家的420个CPP。参与者完成了一份关于人口统计的在线问卷，弹性，精神痛苦,应对,以及在大流行期间以其母语对儿童保护的看法。分析使用均值比较比较了根据人类发展指数分组的国家，相关性，和多元线性回归。还进行了双路径分析，以确定与行为弹性参与和精神困扰相关的变量。
结果：研究结果表明，CPPs对COVID-19对儿童虐待的影响的看法与其国家的HDI相关。关于参与弹性行为的感知机会及其帮助性，基于HDI的差异也很大。多年的专业经验，内部弹性，和外部弹性被证明是大流行期间CPP精神困扰的重要预测因子，和韧性介导了多年的经验如何预测精神困扰。
结论：这项研究强调了经验和内在韧性对CPPs心理健康的重要性。它还提供了在全球范围内支持MSMR理论的经验证据。此外,它表明COVID-19期间儿童虐待的感知变化可能与区域HDI相关。最后,CPP必须参与弹性行为的机会，这对他们有多大帮助与区域人类发展指数有关，但不是最初预测的方式。研究结果也对如何改变实践和政策以帮助CPP在危机时期和总体上更好地应对具有重要意义。
