Bogdán Patrik M, Varga Katalin, Tóth Lívia, Gróf Kristóf, Pakai Annamária
Doctoral School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs, 7621 Pécs, Hungary.
Department of Affective Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, 1064 Budapest, Hungary.
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Jul 4;13(13):1603. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13131603.
Parental burnout is one of today's significant challenges, increasingly manifesting as a problem in our fast-paced world. The aim of this review is to create an exploratory, descriptive summary of parental burnout through the analysis of available international publications, providing a clearer and more accurate understanding of the psychological condition, severity, manifestations, and treatment options.
Our narrative literature review includes publications from 2010 onwards, focusing on those that directly address the topic of parental burnout syndrome and contain epidemiological data, risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic possibilities, and treatment strategies. We excluded publications that examined the condition within narrow societal groups, such as parents caring for children with somatic mental disorders.
Based on our review, it appears that parental burnout may potentially affect both women and men. Factors such as low emotional intelligence, workplace stress, and lack of supportive family background render parents vulnerable to this condition. Significant differences in the prevalence of parental burnout can be measured between countries, due to cultural differences. Parental burnout has extremely detrimental effects on family dynamics and the emotional development of children, and it can negatively impact the willingness to have more children at the family level, which has dire consequences considering the low birth rates characteristic of European countries.
父母倦怠是当今重大挑战之一,在我们这个快节奏的世界中日益凸显为一个问题。本综述的目的是通过分析现有的国际出版物,对父母倦怠进行探索性、描述性总结,以便更清晰、准确地了解这种心理状况、严重程度、表现形式和治疗选择。
我们的叙述性文献综述涵盖2010年起的出版物,重点关注直接涉及父母倦怠综合征主题且包含流行病学数据、风险因素、症状、诊断可能性和治疗策略的文献。我们排除了在狭窄社会群体范围内研究该状况的出版物,例如照顾患有躯体精神障碍儿童的父母。
基于我们的综述,父母倦怠似乎可能对男性和女性都产生影响。诸如情商低、工作场所压力以及缺乏支持性家庭背景等因素使父母容易出现这种状况。由于文化差异,各国之间父母倦怠的患病率存在显著差异。父母倦怠对家庭动态和孩子的情感发展具有极其有害的影响,并且会对家庭层面生育更多孩子的意愿产生负面影响,鉴于欧洲国家低出生率的特点,这会带来严重后果。