Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?

Mikolajczak, Moïra; Gross, James J.; Roskam, Isabelle

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“…Third, the effects of parental burnout may impact children, as the risk of neglectful and violent behavior toward them may increase . In addition, Mikolajczak et al (2019) provided further evidence that parental burnout increased the parents' escape ideation, negligent behavior, and violence longitudinally.…”

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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

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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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Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment

Cheng

Wang

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Front. Psychol.

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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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“…Pressures on parents have intensified since the 1980s, to the point that parenting stress has become the rule rather than the exception [2]. When parents lack the resources needed to handle parenting stress, they may develop parental burnout (PB) [3, 4], a state of intense exhaustion related to one’s parental role, in which one becomes emotionally detached from one’s children and doubtful of one’s capacity to be a good parent [4]. PB is a prevalent condition (5–6% of parents are affected in Western countries), with severe consequences for parents (e.g., poor health and suicidal ideation [4, 5]) and children (e.g., parental neglect and violence [4, 5]).…”

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