TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of cognitive appraisals in parental burnout
T2 - A preliminary analysis during the COVID-19 quarantine
AU - Woine, A.
AU - Mikolajczak, M.
AU - Gross, J.
AU - Van Bakel, H.
AU - Roskam, I.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Counter-intuitively, sociodemographic characteristics account for a small proportion of explained variance in parental burnout. The present study conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic asks whether (i) sociodemographic characteristics are more predictive of parental burnout than usual in a situation of lockdown, (ii) situational factors, that is, the specific restrictive living conditions inherent in the context of lockdown, predict parental burnout better than sociodemographic characteristics do, and (iii) the impact of both sociodemographic and situational factors is moderated or mediated by the parents’ subjective perception of the impact that the health crisis has had on their parenting circumstances. Results show that, within the context of lockdown, both sociodemographic and situational factors explain a negligible proportion of variance in parental burnout. By contrast, parents’ cognitive appraisals of their parenthood within the context of the health crisis were found to play both a crucial mediating and moderating role in the prediction of parental burnout.
AB - Counter-intuitively, sociodemographic characteristics account for a small proportion of explained variance in parental burnout. The present study conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic asks whether (i) sociodemographic characteristics are more predictive of parental burnout than usual in a situation of lockdown, (ii) situational factors, that is, the specific restrictive living conditions inherent in the context of lockdown, predict parental burnout better than sociodemographic characteristics do, and (iii) the impact of both sociodemographic and situational factors is moderated or mediated by the parents’ subjective perception of the impact that the health crisis has had on their parenting circumstances. Results show that, within the context of lockdown, both sociodemographic and situational factors explain a negligible proportion of variance in parental burnout. By contrast, parents’ cognitive appraisals of their parenthood within the context of the health crisis were found to play both a crucial mediating and moderating role in the prediction of parental burnout.
KW - Cognitive appraisals
KW - Covid-19 pandemic
KW - Parental burnout
KW - Subjective perception
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123113124&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12144-021-02629-z
DO - 10.1007/s12144-021-02629-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 35039737
SN - 1046-1310
VL - 42
SP - 30585
EP - 30598
JO - Current Psychology
JF - Current Psychology
IS - 34
ER -