Consequences of parental burnout: Its specific effect on child neglect and violence

Mikolajczak, Moïra; Brianda, Maria Elena; Avalosse, Hervé; Roskam, Isabelle

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.03.025

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“…Parents with neuroticism showed greater emotional instability, worried more frequently, and reacted more intensely to life events (Prinzie et al, 2009). Consistent with Le Vigouroux et al (2017) and Mikolajczak et al (2018), neuroticism was found to be positively related to parental burnout in this study. Furthermore, previous research has revealed that parents with higher levels of agreeableness made more positive attributions regarding their children's behavior and were better able to respond to their needs (Prinzie et al, 2009).…”

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“…In line with prior studies, personality traits, including neuroticism and agreeableness (Le Vigouroux et al, 2017), and job burnout were assessed. Second, as noted by Mikolajczak et al (2018Mikolajczak et al ( , 2019, parental burnout is closely related to marital conflicts and partnerestrangement mindsets, which may induce dissatisfaction with marriage. Thus, marriage satisfaction was measured as well.…”

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Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment

Cheng

Wang

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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Parenting is a meaningful endeavor but it also induces stress, which can cause parental burnout. In China, the assessment and study of parental burnout are still in their formative stages. To contribute to advancing this field, the present study aimed to develop and validate a Chinese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Questionnaires were distributed to 614 families (comprising students in the eighth grade and both of their parents; one questionnaire for each person) on two separate occasions (Time 1 and Time 2). The students were asked to self-report their loneliness and life satisfaction at Time 1 and their anti-social behavior at Time 2. Meanwhile, parents were asked to self-report their parental burnout and job burnout at both Time 1 and Time 2, their marriage satisfaction at Time 1, and their levels of agreeableness and neuroticism at Time 2. Using the data obtained, we performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, which indicated that this version of the PBA had a singlefactor structure. The α of the PBA was 0.938 at Time 1 and 0.952 at Time 2. At Time 1, parental burnout was positively related to their job burnout in emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and negatively related to their marriage satisfaction. In addition, parental burnout was positively related to students' life satisfaction, and mothers' parental burnout was positively related to students' loneliness. At Time 2, parental burnout showed positive relations with neuroticism and job burnout in emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and was negatively related to agreeableness. In addition, mothers' parental burnout was positively related to students' anti-social behavior. Furthermore, parental burnout at Time 1 also showed positive relations with job burnout through emotional exhaustion and depersonalization measured at Time 2, and parental burnout at Time 1 was positively related to students' anti-social behavior at Time 2. Overall, the present study confirmed the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the PBA.

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confidence: 99%

Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment

Cheng

Wang

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…For example, compared to job burnout (i.e., a condition characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and a lack of professional efficiency in work domain as a result of prolonged work stress; Maslach, Schaufeli & Leiter, 2001), parental burnout seems to have a specific effect on violent and neglectful behavior towards children. In fact, whereas job burnout has been shown to explain less than 1% of the variance of neglectful and violent behavior towards children, parental burnout has been found to explain up to 31% (Mikolajczak, Brianda, Avalosse & Roskam, 2018). Parental burnout has been shown to affect both mothers and fathers (Roskam et al ., 2017), with the prevalence varying between 8% and 36% depending on the cutoff scores, instruments, and the sample studied (Lindström, Åman & Norberg, 2011; Roskam et al ., 2017).…”

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“…Parental burnout has been shown to affect both mothers and fathers (Roskam et al ., 2017), with the prevalence varying between 8% and 36% depending on the cutoff scores, instruments, and the sample studied (Lindström, Åman & Norberg, 2011; Roskam et al ., 2017). As parental burnout can have serious consequences for parents, couples, and children, as it has been associated with parental escapism and suicidal thoughts, couple conflicts, and neglectful and violent behavior towards one’s children (Mikolajczak, Brianda, et al ., 2018; Mikolajczak, Gross & Roskam, 2019), early identification of symptoms of parental burnout is crucial.…”

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Validity of the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)

Aunola

Sorkkila

Tolvanen

2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The aim of the present study was to validate the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) using data from 1,688 Finnish parents (91% mothers) living in Finland with at least one child living at home. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the theoretical four‐factor structure of the PBA – emotional exhaustion in one’s parental role, contrast with previous parental self, feelings of being fed up with one’s parental role, and emotional distancing from one’s children. Internal consistency for the total scale was excellent (Cronbach’s alpha ≥ 0.90) and for the subscales from acceptable (alpha ≥ 0.70) to excellent. The results further demonstrated strict factorial invariance of PBA across genders and educational status groups. Finally, the PBA and its four subscales correlated as expected with the three criteria variables (depressive symptoms, sleep disruptions, and self‐esteem), the latent factors of all three criteria variables being still clearly unique and separate constructions from parental burnout factors.

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“…Parenting stress is supposed to have a large number of negative consequences. Parents who report more parental stress frequently declare troubles with parental sensitivity (Pereira et al 2012;Pelchat et al 2003), less positive parents-child interactions (Magill-Evans & Harrison 2001), more conflict situations and interactions among family members (Deater-Deckard and Scarr 1996;Larson and Almeida 1999;Webster-Stratton 1990), various forms of child neglect and abuse (Guterman et al 2009) and even intra-family violence (Mash and Johnston 1990;Mikolajczak et al 2018;Prinz 2016;Rodriguez and Green 1997). Additionally, parents who report more parenting stress may potentially declare the tendency to experience lower psychological well-being, lower positive affect and higher negative affect, as well as more anxiety and depression symptoms (Davis and Carter 2008;Leigh and Milgrom 2008;Marshall et al 2018;Pottie and Ingram 2008;Rezendes and Scarpa 2011).…”

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Psychometric Properties of a Polish Version of the Parental Stress Index III (PSI III)

Pisula

Barańczuk

2019

J Dev Phys Disabil

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The Parenting Stress Index (PSI) has been translated into multiple languages. The aim of the present study was to develop a Polish version of the PSI III. A total sample size of 678 parents (308 parents of children with ASD, 59 parents of children with Down syndrome, 65 parents of deaf children, 34 parents of children with other developmental disorders, and 212 parents without developmental disabilities) participated in the study. The Polish version of the PSI III was characterized by: (1) good internal consistency, (2) a three-factor structure, including Parent domain, Child domain, and the children’s and parents’ difficulties in adapting to the external demands resulting from the children’s developmental disorder, and (3) negative correlations between parental stress and parental well-being. Implications for the research and clinical practice are discussed.

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Consequences of parental burnout: Its specific effect on child neglect and violence

Cited by 293 publications

References 40 publications

Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment

Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment

Validity of the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)

Psychometric Properties of a Polish Version of the Parental Stress Index III (PSI III)

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