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HOW GROUP MEMBERS:
Elyna Lai Binti Abdullah Mohd Idris 74693
COVID-19 Irsyad Zhafiran Bin Redzuan 73502
Dorothy Dumang Gelan Bilong 55835
EFFECT Nurizatul Binti Se-Aie 76382
Muhammad Firaaz Bin Mohd Fadzli 73610
FAMILY Ahmed Mohammed Awn 77395
Abdul Aziz Bin Shamsudin 73285
What is the impact on Faziera Izzety Binti Abdul Razak 72235
Family during COVID-19 Nurfatin Sahirah Shuairi 76358
Pandemic Stephanie Dara Anak Peter 71698
Amir Bin Saufi 69046

CONTENT

Introduction.................................................................................1
Physical Impact......................................................................2-4
Social Impact..............................................................................5
Financial Impact........................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION

COVID-19 can cause severe illness or

death in people of all ages. According

to (Families on the Edge: Low-Income

Families Need Continued Support to

Recover from the Effects of COVID-19,

2020), "The COVID-19 epidemic has

had an impact on our lives, but

notably on the families, women, and

children who are the topic of our

research." The government has

adopted a bold and creative

approach to mitigating the economic

consequences of the pandemic on the

public, which is much appreciated

and should be maintained. "UNICEF

and UNFPA are excited to work with

DM Analytics to better understand the

effects of the pandemic and ensure

that no family is left behind," stated

Dr. Rashed Mustafa Sarwar, UNICEF's

Representative in Malaysia.

Separately, we investigate the effects

of economic hardship, virus exposure,

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is and pandemic-induced increases in
a virus-borne infection caused by
the SARS-CoV-2 viral. Most childcare time on parental mental
patients infected with the virus will
have mild to severe respiratory health and stress, parent-child
sickness and will recover without
needing any specific therapy. interaction, and children's
Some, though, will get very ill and
require medical treatment. People adjustment. We discover both
over the age of 65, as well as those
with underlying medical disorders favourable and negative
such as cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, chronic respiratory consequences: parental employment
disease, or cancer, are at a higher
risk of developing a serious illness. and income losses are highly linked

to depressive symptoms, stress, a

lack of hope, and bad connections

with children. However, similar

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for parents who lose their

employment but do not lose their

income. Indeed, employment losses

that do not result in money loss are

connected with more favourable

parent-child relationships.

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Did the Covid-19 pandemic
gives IMPACTS to the
family physically?

Generally, the COVID-19 pandemic has a big impact on a lot of
families either positive impact or negative. These are a few of
the impacts that many families have been affected:

During COVID-19 pandemic, the Understanding the physical, mental,
Malaysian government resulted in
closure of gyms, pools, theme parks, and emotional impacts of the COVID-
stadiums and other public facilities.
Regular moderate physical activity 19 pandemic for children and families
has wide reaching health benefits for
people of all ages, sexes, races, will help to guide approaches to
health conditions and shapes, as
shown in reduced morbidity and support families and children during
mortality rates, increased quality of
life and independence in old age.The the pandemic and after (M.
whole local community is not able to
actively participate with their regular Vanderhout, 2020). Family
physical activities especially outside
of their homes (A. Groneberg, 2020). relationships consist of family chaos,
The impacts from these conditions
affect less physically active, quality of parent-child relationship and
irregular sleep patterns, dietary
balance and imperfect time parenting process. Throughout the
spending. For example, lack of
access to physical activities can also
have mental health and body health
issues. It compounds stress, anxiety,
and also unbalanced diet which may
lead to dangerous health diseases
such as diabetes and obesity.

movement control operation (MCO)

that is tightly controlled, this restriction

is commanded to curb the spread of

COVID-19 at once, requiring families to DECEMBER 2022 | ISSUE 10

spend more time at home. Some

research suggests that the rate of

adolescents facing poor psychosocial

functioning such as loneliness is

gradually decreasing due to high

quality of family time spending. Hence,

individual experiences towards COVID-

19 pandemic restriction shapes a

better relationship.

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Furthermore, many families are Next, many people have to try new
facing high cost of living due to
the increasing number of family hobbies during the pandemic.
members at home. This can be
proven by the research that been This can be related to
done by the University of York and
the Resolution Foundation where relationships between family
one of their findings is the parents
identified that having children at members. According to
home 24 hours a day can lead to
higher food and energy bills mypostiveparenting.org, hobbies
meanwhile, the need to entertain
them during the lockdown also has are great ways to foster bonding
brought additional cost (Extra
Living Costs Pile Financial Pressure between family members
on Low-Income Families during
Lockdown, n.d.). This situation will (Parenting, 2019). This can be
give a big impact for those who
have low-incomes. They can feel shown when their parent try their
the drastically changes in their
financial. Besides that, the cost of children hobbies like playing
living also increases due to
additional costs where they need video games, playing musical
to buy the equipment for their
children home-schooling such as instruments and playing sports
laptop, tablet, internet access and
others. This things will increase the together with them. From here,
cost even though they just need to
buy the things once. For low- the parent can tighten their
incomes family, this situation
maybe will require them to make relationship with them by
loan or debt with other people
first. This will make their financial understanding more about them.
become not stable for certain
period. This situation can make the

children assume that their parent

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gain new knowledge regarding

the new hobbies and they also

can teach or share information

amkbout the hobbies within them.

This situation shows that the

pandemic is beneficial for the

family where they can learn as

well as understand each other

deeper.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, a

lot of families had a time when

one or a few members of the

family had to isolate themselves

because of the virus. This is

because when one is diagnosed

with the virus, they must be

quarantined for 2 weeks during

the pandemic. Hence, isolating

themselves from their family for 2

weeks and making them unable to

bond with their family members

physically. Although, during the

pandemic, those who have the

virus had to go to a quarantine

centre which is a lot more

disconnected than self-

quarantine at your own house.

COVID-19 is a deadly virus

which took many lives during

the pandemic and a lot of

families suffer a lot because

of it. Even if you are not

worried about yourself

catching the virus but the

thought of spreading it to

your family members will

leave you with guilt feelings

forever. We have seen a lot

of people lose their loved

ones during the pandemic

but much worse is the loss of DECEMBER 2022 | ISSUE 10

loved ones to the virus which

can never be replaced. This

feeling of loss can also

affect one's physical health

such as loss of appetite, low

drive and lack of motivation

to live. All of this can lead to

a serious mood disorder

problem such as depression.

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Since the Covid-19 is becoming more Social
prevalent, a global lockdown has been Impact
implemented as a preventative step to
prevent the virus from spreading further.
Yet to some extent it has affected every
family in various aspects

W O R K -Balancing Life Some parents or children are unable or unwilling
to share time with family with work or study time.
FAMILY Although it is true that the statement about this
pandemic can help in strengthening the
The global lockdown during the Covid attack relationship between family members, the level DECEMBER 2022 | ISSUE 10
has a variety of consequences for every family, of achievement or understanding as well as
particularly among the children. Children are a quality is also affected. As we have seen, In the
group of people that grow up by socialising era of Covid-19, many people are sad, and
with their peers, family, and community. During frustrated and do not like to study at home
COVID-19 pandemic, they are no longer online because they find it difficult to
permitted to go out with friends, family understand what is being taught by teachers or
members, or even to attend school. In fact, they lecturers. This online learning requires more
were required to attend classes via the internet. effort compared to face-to-face learning. Such
They could not do the outside activities like they is the situation of people who work at home.
used to. Children become stressed because They had to divide their time to work and spend
this social distancing situation persists over a time with family at home.
long period of time. Moreover, during the online
class, they had to deal with some interruptions SOCIAL
such as their own family. Sometimes, there are
some family members who are unaware of this DISTANCING
situation and this will lead the children to
depression. It will even put a burden on family Page 5
members' social ties.

FINANCIAL

IMPACT

Negative Impact

According to UNICEF (2020), urban
families of low-income categories
are highly unemployed, have
reduced working hours and are
experiencing difficulties to get
healthcare as well as online
learning. Recently, statistics recorded
the percentage of unemployment
rate increased from 3.31% in 2019 to
4.55% in 2020 (Macrotrend, 2022).

This is due to the Standard Of Procedure As salaries and wages decrease... DECEMBER 2022 | ISSUE 10
(SOP) established by the government where
we are not allowed to be outside for a long ...it gets more difficult to access healthcare as
period of time. This leads to fewer customers, they need money to pay for it, especially those
which forces industries to dismiss large who have to pay hospital fees. With the high use
numbers of employees to cut losses. There of online-based learning, parents had to pitch in
are also some establishments that had to be to buy laptops or smartphones depending on
shut down due to bankruptcy. For those who the number of children they have, hence adding
stay employed, they are only working fewer to the causes of financial problems.
hours which is still not enough to cover their
food expenses, bills and rent as well as Furthermore, families with older adult workers
support their families since they are paid by are significantly affected since they have
the hour. more dependents, as the COVID-19 pandemic
impacts socioeconomic position, household
This is proven by the Department of Statistics income, food and other requirements, and the
Malaysia Official Portal, in 2020, the median healthcare system for elderly adults.
monthly salaries and wages recorded a
percentage decrease of 15.6% which is from
RM2,442 to RM2, 062 while the mean monthly
salaries and wages recorded a percentage
decrease of 9.0%, which is from RM3,224 to
RM2,933 (Mahidin, 2021).

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According to the Social Wellbeing
Research Centre (2021), 80.3% of older
adults aged 60 and over live with other
family members, while 14.9% live with their
spouse. The remaining 4.8% of older
individuals live alone. This demonstrates
that the majority of older people are likely
dependent on other family members
because they are financially insecure and
unable to maintain themselves (Mansor et
al., 2021). It suggests their financial well-
being is very low, preventing them from
living in financial independence. There are
two types of elderly help in terms of
family assistance. They either receive or
provide help to their families. COVID- 19
prevented 22.9% of older adults who
regularly receive financial help from other
family members from receiving it (Khan et
al., 2021). It demonstrates that family
members were unable to care for their
elderly relatives as a result of COVID-19,
since it had a negative impact on their
financial resources.

COVID-19, on the other hand,

had a greater impact on older

individuals, who generally

supported their families. During

COVID-19, around 52.7% reported

being unable to support their

family (Khan et al., 2021). It

demonstrates that COVID-19 has

negatively impacted their

financial power and resources;

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unable to financially assist their

families. It demonstrates that

COVID-19 influenced elderly

people in two ways, either by

getting assistance from a family

member or providing assistance

to family members.

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CONCLUSION DECEMBER 2022 | ISSUE 10

To summarise, COVID-19 really has a significant impact
on us, usually it will show that the whole narrative of
economic and social shocks on family dynamics and
children's adjustment still needs to be told. COVID-19
will come to an end, but the economic and social
factors that determine family life will live on and may
take on new forms in the future. Understanding these
phenomena and developing appropriate policy
responses to mitigate the effects on parents and
children should be top priorities for both academics
and policymakers. While we hope that the epidemic will
end soon, the findings of our study can help us
understand the larger impact of economic and societal
shocks on family dynamics. The finding found that it can
assist policymakers and practitioners support low-
income families who are dealing with these shocks now
and in the future. Despite facing countless issues and
problems within the family, everyone should be there
for each other to support their family members.
Everything will be better in the future if everyone shows
their empathy.




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