ABSTRACT

Parental burnout is a syndrome that can be defined along three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from children, and lack of parental accomplishment. The aim of the present study was to highlight the contribution of children’s mean age to profiles of parental burnout. To this end, the Parental Burnout Inventory was administered via an online questionnaire to 2160 French-speaking parents. Results revealed five profiles corresponding to different levels of intensity of each parental burnout dimensions: not in parental burnout, low risk of parental burnout, inefficient, exhausted, and burned out. Parents with young children were more likely to be exhausted. A network model highlighted the central role of emotional distancing in the emergence of parental burnout in exhausted parents. These results underscore the importance of conducting campaigns to prevent parental burnout by highlighting the different profiles and especially targeting young parents of young children.

摘要

父母倦怠是一种综合症，可以从三个方面来定义：情绪衰竭、与孩子的情感疏远以及缺乏父母的成就感。本研究的目的是强调儿童的平均年龄对父母倦怠的贡献。为此，通过在线问卷对 2160 名讲法语的父母进行了父母倦怠量表。结果揭示了与每个父母倦怠维度的不同强度水平相对应的五个特征：不在父母倦怠中、父母倦怠风险低、效率低下、精疲力竭和倦怠。有小孩的父母更容易筋疲力尽。一个网络模型强调了情绪疏远在疲惫的父母出现父母倦怠中的核心作用。