A recent initiative known as the International Investigation of Parental Burnout, sought to study the prevalence of parental burnout in over 40 countries globally using the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) instrument. Four countries investigated here provide a first insight into parental burnout in Africa, based on a pooled dataset of 738 parents (48.8% mothers) sampled from Burundi (n = 187; 25.3%), Cameroon (n = 208; 28.2%), Rwanda (n = 240; 32.5%), and Togo (n = 103; 14%). As a first step, we tested the content validity of the PBA that was developed and validated in Western countries. Second, we tested the relations between the PBA and several sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, and level of education. The results provide evidence that the concept of parental burnout makes sense for African parents, and that the PBA can be considered as a psychometrically sound instrument to measure it. However, the results also point to the need for further exploration of the nature of parental burnout in Africa. As in previous studies, low correlations between parental burnout and the sociodemographic characteristics were found. Finally, the current results suggest the existence of parenting subcultures across the four participating countries that would be interesting to document.

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非洲的育儿和父母倦怠

最近的一项名为“父母倦怠国际调查”的倡议试图使用父母倦怠评估 (PBA) 工具研究全球 40 多个国家父母倦怠的流行情况。根据从布隆迪（n = 187；25.3%）、喀麦隆（n = 208；28.2%）、卢旺达采样的 738 位父母（48.8% 的母亲）的汇总数据集，这里调查的四个国家提供了对非洲父母倦怠的初步了解( n = 240; 32.5%) 和多哥 ( n= 103; 14%）。作为第一步，我们测试了在西方国家开发和验证的 PBA 的内容有效性。其次，我们测试了 PBA 与年龄、性别和教育水平等几个社会人口特征之间的关系。结果证明父母倦怠的概念对非洲父母有意义，并且 PBA 可以被视为一种心理测量学上合理的工具来衡量它。然而，结果也表明需要进一步探索非洲父母倦怠的性质。与之前的研究一样，父母倦怠与社会人口学特征之间的相关性较低。最后，目前的结果表明，在四个参与国中存在着值得记录的育儿亚文化。