In this commentary we first examine psychometric issues in the ambitious enterprise of cross‐cultural application of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). The present reports span a wide range of cultural places. Overall, the PBA presents good face validity and a strong replication of factor structure; future multi‐group confirmatory factor analysis will enable quantitative comparisons not currently possible. Content validity is not fully addressed in these reports, so nuanced differences in the nature of parental burnout remain an interesting possibility. Variation the PBA's correlations with other measures, such as education and household type, suggests cultural mediation in the causes and dynamics of parental burnout. In the second part of our commentary, we address more directly whether parental burnout is influenced by the sociocultural context in which it is manifest. We propose that future research will benefit from more precise description of the particular cultural community involved, including the settings, customs, and ethnotheories of parenting. Gaining a global understanding of parental burnout, in other words, rests on building firmer and more differentiated pictures at the local level. The papers in this volume nevertheless present an important step forward in what promises to be an exciting journey of discovery.

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跨文化研究父母倦怠：走向全球理解的步骤

在这篇评论中，我们首先研究了跨文化应用父母倦怠评估 (PBA) 的雄心勃勃的事业中的心理测量问题。本报告涵盖了广泛的文化场所。总体而言，PBA 表现出良好的表面效度和因子结构的强复制；未来的多组验证性因素分析将使目前无法进行的定量比较成为可能。这些报告中没有完全解决内容有效性，因此父母倦怠本质上的细微差别仍然是一个有趣的可能性。PBA 与其他措施（例如教育和家庭类型）的相关性的变化表明，在父母倦怠的原因和动态中存在文化中介作用。在我们评论的第二部分，我们更直接地讨论父母倦怠是否受到其表现的社会文化背景的影响。我们建议未来的研究将受益于对所涉及的特定文化社区的更精确描述，包括育儿的环境、习俗和民族理论。换句话说，对父母倦怠的全球理解取决于在地方层面建立更牢固、更有差异化的画面。尽管如此，本卷中的论文在有望成为令人兴奋的发现之旅方面向前迈出了重要的一步。换句话说，取决于在地方层面建立更牢固、更有差异化的画面。尽管如此，本卷中的论文在有望成为令人兴奋的发现之旅方面向前迈出了重要的一步。换句话说，取决于在地方层面建立更牢固、更差异化的画面。尽管如此，本卷中的论文在有望成为令人兴奋的发现之旅方面向前迈出了重要的一步。