A new study by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) analyzing the resilience of Singaporean families during the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered significant findings that highlight how most families with young children successfully adapted to the challenges brought by the global crisis. Led by Prof. Jean Yeung Wei-Jun from the Department of Paediatrics and the Human Potential Translational Research Programme at NUS Medicine, and Dr.
Chen Xuejiao, former research fellow from the Department of Paediatrics at NUS Medicine, the research team looked at data from 2,818 families before and during the pandemic, and identified six distinct family groups with varying degrees of economic and relational resilience. Prof Jean Yeung and Dr Chen Xuejiao are also currently researchers at A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential. The data was drawn from a nationally representative longitudinal study - the Singapore Longitudinal EArly Development Study (SG-LEADS), and collected across two time periods – Wave One in 2018-2019 before the COVID-19 outbreak and Wave Two in 2021 during the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The findings were based on 2,818 households across all planning areas in Singapore. The study, one of the first to examine the economic and relational responses of Singaporean families to the pandemic with a national sample, found that a majority of families showed considerable resilience: • 31% of families were cl.
