Information Behavior of Parents during COVID-19 in Relation to Their Young School-age Children's Education.

This paper explores the information behavior of parents with regard to their young school-age children (PreK and elementary school) during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to contribute to research on parent information behavior more generally and to increase our understanding of parent information behavior during this pandemic. This study proposes a model of the influences on parents' emotional responses to their children's required daily academic activities following roughly two months of school closures. It is unknown when the pandemic will end; thus this paper recommends solutions that schools might implement to improve parents' experiences with information as school disruptions continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]