Kawamoto Taishi, Furutani Kaichiro, Alimardani Maryam
Department of Psychology, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan.
Faculty of Business Administration, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 20;9:970. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00970. eCollection 2018.
Parenting is a precious experience and also a very hard task, which could result in for some parents. The present study sought to validate a Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Inventory (PBI-J) by replicating and extending the pioneering work of Roskam et al. (2017). We conducted a web survey ( = 1200) to first validate the PBI-J and second to investigate the association between the PBI-J and perfectionism as a new interrelation. Similar to the prior study of Roskam et al. (2017), confirmatory factor analysis supported a model of three-factor structure of the PBI-J: emotional exhaustion, lack of personal accomplishment, and emotional distancing. In addition, we found low to moderate correlations of parental burnout with job burnout, parental stress, and depression. These findings provided initial evidence for validity of the PBI-J and suggested that parental burnout appeared to be different from job burnout. Our further evaluation of perfectionism confirmed such a difference between parental and job burnout by showing that parental perfectionism [i.e., combination of parental personal standards (PS) and parental concern over mistakes (CM)] has a unique contribution to parental burnout than does job perfectionism (i.e., combination of job PS and job CM). In addition, CM was positively correlated with burnout in both domains whereas the associations between PS and burnout were more complex. Finally, the proportion of parents experiencing burnout was estimated to lie somewhere between 4.2 and 17.3% in Japan. Overall, the present study confirmed preliminary validity of the PBI-J and found that parental perfectionism is one of the vulnerability factors in parental burnout.
育儿是一段宝贵的经历，但也是一项非常艰巨的任务，对一些父母来说可能会导致倦怠。本研究旨在通过复制和扩展罗斯卡姆等人（2017年）的开创性工作来验证日语版的父母倦怠量表（PBI-J）。我们进行了一项网络调查（n = 1200），首先验证PBI-J，其次研究PBI-J与完美主义之间的关联，将其作为一种新的相互关系。与罗斯卡姆等人（2017年）之前的研究类似，验证性因素分析支持了PBI-J的三因素结构模型：情感耗竭、个人成就感缺失和情感疏离。此外，我们发现父母倦怠与职业倦怠、父母压力和抑郁之间存在低到中等程度的相关性。这些发现为PBI-J的有效性提供了初步证据，并表明父母倦怠似乎与职业倦怠不同。我们对完美主义的进一步评估证实了父母倦怠与职业倦怠之间的这种差异，表明父母完美主义[即父母个人标准（PS）和父母对错误的关注（CM）的组合]对父母倦怠的贡献比职业完美主义（即工作PS和工作CM的组合）更为独特。此外，CM在两个领域都与倦怠呈正相关，而PS与倦怠之间的关联则更为复杂。最后，据估计，日本经历倦怠的父母比例在4.2%至17.3%之间。总体而言，本研究证实了PBI-J的初步有效性，并发现父母完美主义是父母倦怠的脆弱因素之一。
