Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 146-152.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.01.18

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Is Parenting a Happy Experience? Review on Parental Burnout

CHENG Huabin1, LIU Xia2, LI Yimin1, LI Yongxin1   

  1. 1. Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2021-01-22

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Abstract: Parental burnout is a negative syndrome resulting from parental identity and enduring exposure to chronic parenting stress. It encompasses an overwhelming exhaustion related to one's parental role, an emotional distancing with one's children and a sense of ineffectiveness in one's parental role. Scholars use the Balance Between Risks and Resources Model to explain parenting burnout and carry out a series of research around its measurement, antecedent variable and consequence variable. Future research should focus on the following issues:(1) clarifying the concept connotation of parental burnout and developing scientific measurement and assessment tools; (2) attaching importance to the relationship between parental burnout and consequence variables and its mechanism; (3) paying full attention to the position and role of culture in the study of parental burnout.

Key words: parental burnout, Job burnout, the balance between risks and resources

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  • B844
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