Culture; Exhaustion; Fathers; Individualism; Mothers; Child; Humans; Burnout, Psychological; Socialization; Parents; Burnout, Professional/epidemiology; Burnout, Professional; Epidemiology; Health (social science); Social Psychology; Psychiatry and Mental Health
Abstract :
[en] [en] PURPOSE: The prevalence of parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children, varies dramatically across countries and is highest in Western countries characterized by high individualism.
METHOD: In this study, we examined the mediators of the relationship between individualism measured at the country level and parental burnout measured at the individual level in 36 countries (16,059 parents).
RESULTS: The results revealed three mediating mechanisms, that is, self-discrepancies between socially prescribed and actual parental selves, high agency and self-directed socialization goals, and low parental task sharing, by which individualism leads to an increased risk of burnout among parents.
CONCLUSION: The results confirm that the three mediators under consideration are all involved, and that mediation was higher for self-discrepancies between socially prescribed and actual parental selves, then parental task sharing, and lastly self-directed socialization goals. The results provide some important indications of how to prevent parental burnout at the societal level in Western countries.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Roskam, Isabelle ; Department of Psychology, UCLouvain, Place Cardinal Mercier 10, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. isabelle.roskam@uclouvain.be
Aguiar, Joyce; University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, s/n, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal
Akgun, Ege; Ankara University, Ankara Universitesi Egitim Bilimleri Fakultesi Okul Oncesi Egitimi AD Cebeci, 06590, Ankara, Turkey
Arena, Andrew F; University of New South Wales, Hospital Road, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia
Aunola, Kaisa; University of Jyväskylä, P.O. BoX 35, 40014, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Besson, Eliane; Saint-Joseph University, Campus des Sciences Humaines, Rue de Damas, Mar Mikhael, B.P. 17-5208, Beyrouth, 1104 2020, Lebanon
Beyers, Wim; Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Boujut, Emilie; Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université de Paris, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Brianda, Maria Elena ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Research Unit for a life-Course perspective on Health and Education (RUCHE)
Brytek-Matera, Anna; University of Wroclaw, Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland
Budak, A Meltem; Bahcesehir University, Guney Yerleskesi, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
Carbonneau, Noémie; Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3351 Bd des Forges, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8Z 4M3, Canada
César, Filipa; University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, s/n, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal
Chen, Bin-Bin; Fudan University, Handan Road 220, Shanghai, China
Dorard, Géraldine; Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université de Paris, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Dos Santos Elias, Luciana Carla; University of São Paulo, Avenida Catão Roxo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 3900, Brazil
Dunsmuir, Sandra; University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK
Egorova, Natalia; EPSM de l'agglomération lilloise, 1 rue de Lommelet, 59871, Saint-André-lez-Lille, France
Favez, Nicolas; University of Geneva, 40 Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
Fontaine, Anne-Marie; University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, s/n, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal
Foran, Heather; University of Klagenfurt, Universitaetsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria
IR and MM were supported by a Coordinated Research Grant from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in Belgium (ARC Grant n°19/24-100). This fund did not exert any influence or censorship of any kind on the present work.
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