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Objectives:The purpose of this study was to describe relationships between negative emotions and perceived emotional support in parents of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit(PICU).Methods:This cross-sectional descriptive study conducted face-to-face interviews between January 2019 and January 2020.Study variables included depression(PHQ-9 Scale),anxiety(Emotional Distress-Anxiety-Short Form 8a),anger(Emotional Distress-Anger-Short Form 5a),fear(Fear-Affect Computer-ized Adaptive Test),somatic fear(Fear-Somatic Arousal-Fixed Form),loneliness(Revised 20-item UCLA Loneliness Scale),and perceived emotional support(Emotional Support-Fixed Form).Results:Eighty parents reported symptoms of depression 8.00(4.00,13.75),anxiety(23.43 ± 7.80),anger(13.40 ± 5.46),fear(72.81 ± 27.26),somatic fear 9.00(6.00,12.75),loneliness(39.35 ± 12.00),and low perceived emotional support(32.14 ± 8.06).Parents who were young,single,low-income,and with limited-post secondary education reported greater loneliness and lower perceived emotional support.Fear correlated with depression(r = 0.737,P ＜ 0.01)and anxiety(r=0.900,P ＜ 0.01).Inverse relation-ships were discovered between perceived emotional support and loneliness(r =-0.767,P ＜ 0.01),anger(r=-0.401,P ＜ 0.01),and depression(r =-0.334,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions:The cluster of negative emotions identified will serve as potential targets for future in-terventions designed to enhance support for parents of critically ill children.