Department of Psychology, UCLouvain, Place Cardinal Mercier 10, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, s/n, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2024 Apr;59(4):681-694. doi: 10.1007/s00127-023-02487-z. Epub 2023 May 17.
The prevalence of parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children, varies dramatically across countries and is highest in Western countries characterized by high individualism.
In this study, we examined the mediators of the relationship between individualism measured at the country level and parental burnout measured at the individual level in 36 countries (16,059 parents).
The results revealed three mediating mechanisms, that is, self-discrepancies between socially prescribed and actual parental selves, high agency and self-directed socialization goals, and low parental task sharing, by which individualism leads to an increased risk of burnout among parents.
The results confirm that the three mediators under consideration are all involved, and that mediation was higher for self-discrepancies between socially prescribed and actual parental selves, then parental task sharing, and lastly self-directed socialization goals. The results provide some important indications of how to prevent parental burnout at the societal level in Western countries.
父母倦怠的流行程度因国家而异，在以个人主义为特征的西方国家最为严重，这种情况对父母和孩子都有严重的后果。
本研究在 36 个国家（16059 名父母）中，考察了国家层面测量的个人主义与个体层面测量的父母倦怠之间的关系的中介因素。
结果揭示了三种中介机制，即社会规定的和实际的父母自我之间的自我差异、高能动性和自我导向的社会化目标以及低父母任务分担，这些机制导致父母倦怠的风险增加。
结果证实，所考虑的三种中介因素都有涉及，而且社会规定的和实际的父母自我之间的自我差异的中介作用最高，其次是父母任务分担，最后是自我导向的社会化目标。研究结果为如何在西方国家从社会层面预防父母倦怠提供了一些重要的线索。
