“Covid‐19 is dangerous”: The role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid‐19

The aim was twofold. First, the study aimed to extend earlier findings on the link between parent and child fears of Covid‐19 and the mediating role of parental verbal information about Covid‐19 to a Dutch sample.

It is important to replicate the studies by Radanovićet al. (2021) and Uy et al. (2022) in different countries as fear of Covid is context‐dependent and relates not only to governmental measures but also to cultural differences (Lin et al., 2021). Furthermore, this study is the first to assess parental verbal threat information about Covid‐19 using both child and parent reports. Previous studies reported the benefit of using multiple informants to assess parenting behavior (Renk, 2005).