Parental Burnout – a new look at the 'exhausted parent' – A review of the literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25312/2083-2923.16/2019_02nmKeywords:
burnout, parental burnout syndrome, emotional distancing, sense of inefficacy, emotional and physical exhaustion, upbringingAbstract
This article is a summary of international studies regarding Parental Burnout syndrome. The article describes the history of the studies and the main characteristics of parental burnout. It considers the predictors of burnout and the factors that lead to the development of the syndrome. The article is based on international studies, as no studies on the topic have been published in Poland.
Downloads
References
Caprara G.V., Barbaranelli C., Borgogni L., Perugini M., The „big five questionnaire”: A new questionnaire to assess the five factor model, “Frontiers in Psychology” 1993, Vol. 15.
Freudenberger H.J., Staff Burn-Out, “Journal of Social Issues” 1974, Vol. 30, No. 1.
Gosling S.D., Rentfrow P.J., Swann W.B.J., A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains, “Journal of Research in Personality” 2003, Vol. 37.
Le Vigouroux S., Scola C., Differences in Parental Burnout: Influence of Demographic Factors and Personality of Parents and Children, “Frontiers in Psychology” 2018, Vol. 9.
Le Vigouroux S., Scola C., Raes M.E., Mikolajczak M., Roskam I., The big five personality traits and parental burnout: Protective and risk factors, “Personality and Individual Differences” 2017, Vol. 119.
Lindström C., Parental burnout in relation to sociodemographic, psychosocial and personality factors as well as disease duration and glycaemic control in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, “Acta Pediatrica” 2011, Vol. 100.
Maslach C., Schaufeli W.B., Leiter M.P., Job Burnout, “Annual Review of Psychology” 2001, Vol. 52, No. 1.
Norberg A.L., Burnout in mothers and fathers of children surviving brain tumour, “Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings” 2007, Vol. 14.
Norberg A.L., Parents of children surviving a brain tumour: burnout and the perceived disease-related influence on everyday life, “Journal of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology” 2010, Vol. 32.
Pelsma D.M., Roland B., Tollefson N., Wigington H., Parent Burnout: Validation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory with a Sample of Mothers, “Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development” 2018, Vol. 22.
Prinzie P., Stams G.J.J.M., Deković M., Rejintjes A.H.A., Belsky J., The relations between parents’ big five personality factors and parenting: a meta-analytic review, “Journal of Personality and Social Psychology” 2009, Vol. 97.
Roskam I., Brianda M.E., Mikolajczak M., A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), “Frontiers in Psychology” 2018, Vol. 9.
Roskam I., Raes M.E., Mikolajczak M., Exhausted Parents: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Parental Burnout Inventory, “Frontiers in Psychology” 2017, Vol. 8.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
