2017
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00163
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Exhausted Parents: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Parental Burnout Inventory

Abstract: Can parents burn out? The aim of this research was to examine the construct validity of the concept of parental burnout and to provide researchers which an instrument to measure it. We conducted two successive questionnaire-based online studies, the first with a community-sample of 379 parents using principal component analyses and the second with a community- sample of 1,723 parents using both principal component analyses and confirmatory factor analyses. We investigated whether the tridimensional structure o… Show more

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“…Parenting can be demanding and stressful (Abidin, 1992; Crnic & Low, 2002; McQuillan, Bates, Staples & Deater‐Deckard, 2019) and can even lead to burnout (Hubert & Aujoulat, 2018; Mikolajczak, Raes, Avalosse & Roskam, 2018). Parental burnout has been conceptualized as exhaustion in one’s parental role, feelings of being fed up as a parent, and emotional distancing from one’s children (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018; Roskam, Raes & Mikolajczak, 2017). Whereas parental stress (i.e., the experience of distress or discomfort that results from demands associated with the role of parenting; Deater‐Deckard, 1998) can be ordinary experience for any parent every now and then, parental burnout follows when stress becomes chronic and overwhelming and collapse individual’s ability to cope with it (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018).…”
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“…Parenting can be demanding and stressful (Abidin, 1992; Crnic & Low, 2002; McQuillan, Bates, Staples & Deater‐Deckard, 2019) and can even lead to burnout (Hubert & Aujoulat, 2018; Mikolajczak, Raes, Avalosse & Roskam, 2018). Parental burnout has been conceptualized as exhaustion in one’s parental role, feelings of being fed up as a parent, and emotional distancing from one’s children (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018; Roskam, Raes & Mikolajczak, 2017). Whereas parental stress (i.e., the experience of distress or discomfort that results from demands associated with the role of parenting; Deater‐Deckard, 1998) can be ordinary experience for any parent every now and then, parental burnout follows when stress becomes chronic and overwhelming and collapse individual’s ability to cope with it (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Parental burnout has been identified to be a separate and unique psychological syndrome that differs from parental stress, depression, and job burnout in both theory and practice (Mikolajczak, Gross, Stinglhamber, Lindahl Norberg & Roskam, 2019; Roskam et al ., 2017; Roskam, Brianda & Mikolajczak, 2018). 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.…”
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“…In fact, studies have indicated that, like job burnout, which results from exposure to excessive job stress, parents who are exposed to chronic parental stress may experience parental burnout (Norberg, 2007(Norberg, , 2010Lindström et al, 2011;Norberg et al, 2014). Considering this, Roskam et al (2017) developed and tested a tool for measuring parental burnout, and found that 2-12% of parents in Belgium experienced such burnout. Building on this work, Van Bakel et al (2018) reported that in the Netherlands, this rate was 0.2-7.7%, while Kawamoto et al (2018) reported that it was 4.2-17.3% in Japan.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In addition, some MBI items (e.g., "I feel like I'm at the end of my rope") do not specifically indicate occupational work, which may confuse the boundary between parental and job burnout, especially for parents who perform both duties. Based on these arguments, Roskam et al (2017) developed the Parental Burnout Inventory (PBI) and indicated that parental burnout encompasses three dimensions: overwhelming exhaustion related to one's parental role, emotional distancing from one's children, and a sense of ineffectiveness in the parental role.…”
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confidence: 99%