ERIC Number: EJ1370721
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1740-5629
EISSN: EISSN-1740-5610
Profiles and Age-Related Differences in the Expression of the Three Parental Burnout Dimensions
European Journal of Developmental Psychology, v19 n6 p885-904 2022
Parental burnout is a syndrome that can be defined along three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from children, and lack of parental accomplishment. The aim of the present study was to highlight the contribution of children's mean age to profiles of parental burnout. To this end, the Parental Burnout Inventory was administered via an online questionnaire to 2160 French-speaking parents. Results revealed five profiles corresponding to different levels of intensity of each parental burnout dimensions: not in parental burnout, low risk of parental burnout, inefficient, exhausted, and burned out. Parents with young children were more likely to be exhausted. A network model highlighted the central role of emotional distancing in the emergence of parental burnout in exhausted parents. These results underscore the importance of conducting campaigns to prevent parental burnout by highlighting the different profiles and especially targeting young parents of young children.
Descriptors: Parents, Burnout, Age Differences, Emotional Response, Parent Child Relationship, Children, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Parent Attitudes, At Risk Persons, Marital Status, Gender Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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