Lin Gao-Xian, Szczygieł Dorota
Department of Psychology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Place Cardinal Mercier 10, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Warszawa, Poland.
Affect Sci. 2022 Mar 28;3(2):498-504. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00103-y. eCollection 2022 Jun.
Recent evidence has shown that Western parents are five times more vulnerable to developing parental burnout than parents in other parts of the world. It has also been found that this augmented susceptibility is explained by the group tendency of individualism cultural value that prevails in Western societies. Still, whether this relation observed at the group mean level across countries can be generalized to the association of personal value with parental burnout across individuals has not yet been explored. In order to address this question, the current study collected a sample of 643 Polish parents and assessed their report of value priorities and parental burnout. The results demonstrated that individual-level values indeed predict susceptibility to parental burnout. Specifically, parents are more susceptible to parental burnout when prioritizing values that emphasize power and achievement, whereas prioritizing benevolence protects parents from parental burnout. Associations between parents' gender, personal values, and parental burnout were also examined. Consistent with previous studies, fathers reported fewer parental burnout symptoms compared to mothers. However, gender differences in parental burnout were not mediated by personal values, nor did parents' gender moderate the effect of personal values on burnout. In sum, together with previous results obtained at the society level, our finding points out the role of values in predicting parental burnout. A possible future direction of research was discussed: examining the affective mechanism (e.g. parental regulation of emotions) underlying the relationship between personal values and parental burnout.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-022-00103-y.
最近的证据表明，西方父母比世界其他地区的父母更容易出现育儿倦怠，其可能性是其他地区父母的五倍。研究还发现，这种更高的易感性可以用西方社会盛行的个人主义文化价值观的群体倾向来解释。然而，在国家层面的群体平均水平上观察到的这种关系是否可以推广到个人层面的个人价值观与育儿倦怠之间的关联，尚未得到探讨。为了解决这个问题，本研究收集了643名波兰父母的样本，并评估了他们对价值观优先级和育儿倦怠的报告。结果表明，个人层面的价值观确实可以预测育儿倦怠的易感性。具体而言，当父母将强调权力和成就的价值观置于优先地位时，他们更容易出现育儿倦怠，而将仁爱置于优先地位则可以保护父母避免出现育儿倦怠。研究还考察了父母的性别、个人价值观和育儿倦怠之间的关联。与先前的研究一致，父亲报告的育儿倦怠症状比母亲少。然而，育儿倦怠的性别差异并未由个人价值观介导，父母的性别也没有调节个人价值观对倦怠的影响。总之，与之前在社会层面获得的结果一起，我们的研究结果指出了价值观在预测育儿倦怠方面的作用。讨论了一个可能的未来研究方向：研究个人价值观与育儿倦怠之间关系的情感机制（例如父母的情绪调节）。
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