Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study

Isabelle Roskam; Joyce Aguiar; Ege Akgun; Gizem Arikan; Mariana Artavia; Hervé Avalosse; Kaisa Aunola; Michel Bader; Claire Bahati; Elizabeth J. Barham; Eliane Besson; Wim Beyers; Emilie Boujut; Maria Elena Brianda; Anna Brytek-matera; Noémie Carbonneau; Filipa César; Bin-bin Chen; Géraldine Dorard; Luciana Carla Dos Santos Elias; Sandra Dunsmuir; Natalia Egorova; Nicolas Favez; Anne-marie Fontaine; Heather Foran; Julia Fricke; Kaichiro Furutani; Laura Gallée; Myrna Gannagé; Maria Gaspar; Lucie Godbout; Amit Goldenberg; James J. Gross; Maria Ancuta Gurza; Ruby Hall; Muhammad Aamir Hashmi; Ogma Hatta; Mai Helmy; Thi Vân Hoang; Mai Trang Huynh; Emerence Kaneza; Taishi Kawamoto; Goran Knezevic; Bassantéa Lodegaèna Kpassagou; Ljiljana B. Lazarevic; Sarah Le Vigouroux; Astrid Lebert-charron; Vanessa Leme; Gao-xian Lin; Carolyn Maccann; Denisse Manrique-millones; Marisa Matias; María Isabel Miranda-orrego; Marina Miscioscia; Clara Morgades-bamba; Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi; Badra Moutassem-mimouni; Ana Muntean; Hugh Murphy; Alexis Ndayizigiye; Josué Ngnombouowo Tenkue; Sally Olderbak; Sophie Ornawka; Fatumo Osman; Daniela Oyarce-cadiz; Pablo A. Pérez-díaz; Konstantinos V. Petrides; Claudia Pineda-marin; Katharina Prandstetter; Alena Prikhidko; Ricardo T. Ricci; Fernando Salinas-quiroz; Raquel Sánchez-rodríguez; Ainize Sarrionandia; Céline Scola; Vincent Sezibera; Paola Silva; Alessandra Simonelli; Bart Soenens; Emma Sorbring; Matilda Sorkkila; Charlotte Schrooyen; Elena Stănculescu; Elena Starchenkova; Dorota Szczygiel; Javier Tapia; Thi Minh Thuy Tri; Mélissa Tremblay; A. Meltem Ustundag-budak; Maday Valdés Pacheco; Hedwig Van Bakel; Lesley Verhofstadt; Jaqueline Wendland; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Moïra Mikolajczak

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Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study

Isabelle Roskam^*, Joyce Aguiar, Ege Akgun, Gizem Arikan, Mariana Artavia, Hervé Avalosse, Kaisa Aunola, Michel Bader, Claire Bahati, Elizabeth J. Barham, Eliane Besson, Wim Beyers, Emilie Boujut, Maria Elena Brianda, Anna Brytek-matera, Noémie Carbonneau, Filipa César, Bin-bin Chen, Géraldine Dorard, Luciana Carla Dos Santos EliasSandra Dunsmuir, Natalia Egorova, Nicolas Favez, Anne-marie Fontaine, Heather Foran, Julia Fricke, Kaichiro Furutani, Laura Gallée, Myrna Gannagé, Maria Gaspar, Lucie Godbout, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, Maria Ancuta Gurza, Ruby Hall, Muhammad Aamir Hashmi, Ogma Hatta, Mai Helmy, Thi Vân Hoang, Mai Trang Huynh, Emerence Kaneza, Taishi Kawamoto, Goran Knezevic, Bassantéa Lodegaèna Kpassagou, Ljiljana B. Lazarevic, Sarah Le Vigouroux, Astrid Lebert-charron, Vanessa Leme, Gao-xian Lin, Carolyn Maccann, Denisse Manrique-millones, Marisa Matias, María Isabel Miranda-orrego, Marina Miscioscia, Clara Morgades-bamba, Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi, Badra Moutassem-mimouni, Ana Muntean, Hugh Murphy, Alexis Ndayizigiye, Josué Ngnombouowo Tenkue, Sally Olderbak, Sophie Ornawka, Fatumo Osman, Daniela Oyarce-cadiz, Pablo A. Pérez-díaz, Konstantinos V. Petrides, Claudia Pineda-marin, Katharina Prandstetter, Alena Prikhidko, Ricardo T. Ricci, Fernando Salinas-quiroz, Raquel Sánchez-rodríguez, Ainize Sarrionandia, Céline Scola, Vincent Sezibera, Paola Silva, Alessandra Simonelli, Bart Soenens, Emma Sorbring, Matilda Sorkkila, Charlotte Schrooyen, Elena Stănculescu, Elena Starchenkova, Dorota Szczygiel, Javier Tapia, Thi Minh Thuy Tri, Mélissa Tremblay, A. Meltem Ustundag-budak, Maday Valdés Pacheco, Hedwig Van Bakel, Lesley Verhofstadt, Jaqueline Wendland, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Moïra Mikolajczak

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High levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children. It is not yet clear, however, whether parental burnout varies by culture, and if so, why it might do so. In this study, we examined the prevalence of parental burnout in 42 countries (17,409 parents; 71% mothers; Mage = 39.20) and showed that the prevalence of parental burnout varies dramatically across countries. Analyses of cultural values revealed that individualistic cultures, in particular, displayed a noticeably higher prevalence and mean level of parental burnout. Indeed, individualism plays a larger role in parental burnout than either economic inequalities across countries, or any other individual and family characteristic examined so far, including the number and age of children and the number of hours spent with them. These results suggest that cultural values in Western countries may put parents under heightened levels of stress.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	58-79
Journal	Affective Science
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-020-00028-4
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

EXHAUSTION
CULTURE
INDIVIDUALISM
COLLECTIVISM
PREVALENCE

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Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Artavia, M., Avalosse, H., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Bahati, C., Barham, E. J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B., Dorard, G., ... Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study. Affective Science, 2(1), 58-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-020-00028-4

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AU - Akgun, Ege

AU - Arikan, Gizem

AU - Artavia, Mariana

AU - Avalosse, Hervé

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AU - Brytek-matera, Anna

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AU - Fricke, Julia

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AU - Gallée, Laura

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AU - Gaspar, Maria

AU - Godbout, Lucie

AU - Goldenberg, Amit

AU - Gross, James J.

AU - Gurza, Maria Ancuta

AU - Hall, Ruby

AU - Hashmi, Muhammad Aamir

AU - Hatta, Ogma

AU - Helmy, Mai

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AU - Leme, Vanessa

AU - Lin, Gao-xian

AU - Maccann, Carolyn

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AU - Pineda-marin, Claudia

AU - Prandstetter, Katharina

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AU - Ricci, Ricardo T.

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AU - Sánchez-rodríguez, Raquel

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AU - Sezibera, Vincent

AU - Silva, Paola

AU - Simonelli, Alessandra

AU - Soenens, Bart

AU - Sorbring, Emma

AU - Sorkkila, Matilda

AU - Schrooyen, Charlotte

AU - Stănculescu, Elena

AU - Starchenkova, Elena

AU - Szczygiel, Dorota

AU - Tapia, Javier

AU - Tri, Thi Minh Thuy

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AU - Ustundag-budak, A. Meltem

AU - Pacheco, Maday Valdés

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