The following publications are from our team and others. They give an overview of what is currently known about parental burnout. We organized them according to several main topics, i.e. conceptualization of Parental Burnout (PB), assessment of PB, antecedents and risk factors of PB, consequences of PB, treatment of PB, and literature review.

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Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I. & Gross, J.J. (2021). Parents on the brink: Parental burnout. APA Blog, division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) (link)

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Review/overview papers

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Mikolajczak, M., Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., & Roskam, I. (2023): 15 years of parental burnout research: Systematic review and Agenda. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 4, 276-283. (pdf)

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Edú, S., Laguia, A., & Moriano, J. (2022). Burnout: A Review of Theory and Measurement. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 1780. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J.J., & Roskam, I. (in press). Beyond job burnout: Parental burnout! Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Pdf).

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Cheng, H., Liu, X. Li, Yi. & Li, Yo. (2021). Is parenting a happy experience: Review on Parental burnout (paper in Chense) Psychological Development and Education (Pdf).

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Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Parental burnout: Moving the focus from children to parents. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (Pdf)

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Mroskova, S., Reľovská, M., & Schlosserová, A. (2020). Burnout in parents of sick children and its risk factors: a literature review. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery (Pdf)

 

Sánchez-Rodríguez, R., Perier, S., Callahan, S., & Séjourné, N. (2019). Revue de la littérature relative au burnout parental. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne. (Pdf)

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Conceptualization of PB

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Kalkan, R. B., Blanchard, M. E., Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I., & Heeren, A. (2022). Emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as the driving forces of parental burnout and its consequences on children: Insights from a network approach. Current Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Wang, W., Wang, S., Chen, S., & Li, Y. (2022). Parental burnout and job burnout in working couples: An actor-partner interdependence model. Journal of Family Psychology. (Pdf)

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Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). The slippery slope of parental exhaustion: A process model of
parental burnout. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Wang, W., Wang, S., Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2021). Parental and job burnout in a Chinese sample. Current Psychology. (Pdf)

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Lebert-Charron, A., Dorard, G., Wendland, J., & Boujut, E. (2021). Who are and are not the burnout moms? A cluster analysis study of French-speaking mothers. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. (Pdf)

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Blanchard, M. A., & Heeren, A. (2020). Why we should move from reductionism and embrace a network approach to parental burnout. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., Stinglhamber, F., Lindahl Norberg, A., & Roskam, I. (2020). Is parental burnout distinct from job burnout and depressive symptomatology? Clinical Psychological Science. (Pdf)

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Pérez-Díaz, P., & Oyarce Cádiz, D. (2020). Burnout parental en Chile y género: un modelo para comprender el burnout en madres chilenas. Revista de Psicología. (Pdf)

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Blanchard, A-L., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2020). A network approach to parental burnout. Child Abuse and Neglect. (Pdf)

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Sánchez-Rodríguez, R., Orsini, E., Laflaquière, E., Callahan, S., & Séjourné, N. (2019). Depression, anxiety, and guilt in mothers with burnout of preschool and school-aged children: Insight from a cluster analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., & Roskam, I. (2019). Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter? Clinical Psychological Science. (Pdf)

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César, F., Costa, P., Oliveira, A., & Fontaine, A. M. (2018). “To suffer in paradise”: Feelings mothers share on Portuguese Facebook sites. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Hubert, S., & Aujoulat, I. (2018). Parental burnout: When exhausted mothers open up. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

 

Séjourné, N., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Leboullenger, A., & Callahan, S. (2018). Maternal burn-out: an exploratory study. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. (Pdf)

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Roskam, I., Brianda, M.-E., & Mikolajczak, M. (2018). A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Relationships with job burnout

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Park, L. E., Lin, G.-X., Chang, Y.-H., O’Brien, C., & Ward, D. E. (2022). Burning the candle at both ends: The role of financial contingency of self-worth and work-family conflict on job and parental well-being. Personality and Individual Differences .(Pdf) 

 

Evans Rhys, T., Roskam, I., Stinglhamber, F., & Mikolajczak, M. (in press). Burnout Across Boundaries: Can Parental Burnout Directly or Indirectly Influence Work Outcomes? Current Psychology. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., Stinglhamber, F., Lindahl Norberg, A., & Roskam, I. (2020). Is parental burnout distinct from job burnout and depressive symptomatology? Clinical Psychological Science. (Pdf)

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Cheng, H., Wang, W., Wang, S., Li, Y., Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2020). Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Kawamoto, T. K., Furutani, K., & Alimardani, M. (2018). Preliminary validation of Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Inventory and its relationship with perfectionism. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Van Bakel, H. J., Van Engen, M. L., & Peters, P. (2018). Validity of the Parental Burnout Inventory Among Dutch Employees. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

 

Roskam, I., Brianda, M.-E., & Mikolajczak, M. (2018). A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Assessment of PB

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Roskam, I., Bayot, M., Mikolajczak, M. (2022). Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). In: Medvedev, O.N., Krägeloh, C.U., Siegert, R.J., Singh, N.N. (eds) Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research. Springer, Cham. (Pdf)

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Brianda, ME, Mikolajczak, M., Bader, M., Bon, S., Déprez, A., Favez, N., Holstein, L., Le Vigouroux, S., Lebert-Charron, A., Sanchez Rodriguez, R., Séjourné, N., Wendland, J., & Roskam, I. (in press). Optimizing the Assessment of Parental Burnout: A Multi-Informant and Multi-Method Approach to Determine Cut-offs for the Parental Burnout Inventory (PBI) and the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Assessment. (Pdf) !! Contains the clinical cutoffs of the PBI and PBA!!

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Zbrodska, I., Roskam, I., Dolynska, L., & Mikolajczak, M. (2022). Validation of the Ukrainian version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology, 7590. (pdf)

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Hamvai, Cs., Hidegkúti, I., Vargha, A., & Konkolÿ Thege, B. (2022). Parental burnout in Hungary: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Hungarian Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-HUN). European Journal of Mental Health (Pdf)

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Manrique-Millones, D., Millones-Rivalles, R., Ricci, R. T., Abregu Rey, M., Oyarce, D., Escobar, M. J., Pérez-Diaz, P., Santelices, M.P., Pineda-Marín, C., Tapia, J., Artavia, M., Valdés Pacheco, M., Miranda, M. I., Sánchez Rodríguez, R., Morgades-Bamba, C. I., Peña-Sarrionandia, A., Salinas-Quiroz, F., Cabrera, P.S., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2022). Parental Burnout Assessment in Hispanic countries: An Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., Tolvanen, A., Tassoul, A., Mikolajczak, M. & Roskam, I. (in press). Development and Validation of the Brief Parental Burnout Scale (BPBs). Psychological Assessment. (Pdf)

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Sarrionandia Peña, A. (in press). Initial validation of the Basque version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (B-PBA). Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. (Pdf)

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Furutani, K., Kawamoto, T., Alimardani, M., & Nakashima, K. (2020). Exhausted parents in Japan: Preliminary validation of the Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Stănculescu, E., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., Muntean, A., & Gurza, A. (2020). Parental burnout in Romania: Validity of the Romanian version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA‐RO). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Matias, M., Aguiar, J., César, F., Braz, C. A., Barham, E. J., Leme, V., …, Fontaine, A. M. (2020). The Brazilian–Portuguese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment: Transcultural adaptation and initial validity evidence. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Arikan, G., Üstündağ‐Budak, A. M., Akün, E., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Validation of the Turkish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

 

Mousavi, S.F., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Parental burnout in Iran: Psychometric properties of the Persian (Farsi) version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

 

Szczygieł, D., Sekulowicz, M., Kwiatkowski, P., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Validation of the Polish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

 

Gannagé, M., Besson, E., Harfouche, J., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Parental Burnout in Lebanon: Validation Psychometric Properties of the Lebanese Arabic Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Sodi, T., Kpassagou, L. B., Hatta, O., Ndayizigiye, A., Ndayipfukamiye, J.-M., Tenkué, J. N., Bahati, C., & Sezibera, V. Parenting and parental burnout in Africa. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M. & Tolvanen, A. (2020). Validity of the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. (Pdf)

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Cheng, H., Wang, W., Wang, S., Li, Y., Liu, X., & Li, Y. (2020). Validation of a Chinese Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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​Eom, M., & Lee, Y. (2020). A validation study on parental burnout assessment in South Korea. Crisisonomy.

 

Kawamoto, T. K., Furutani, K., & Alimardani, M. (2018). Preliminary validation of Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Inventory and its relationship with perfectionism. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Van Bakel, H. J., Van Engen, M. L., & Peters, P. (2018). Validity of the Parental Burnout Inventory Among Dutch Employees. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

 

Roskam, I., Brianda, M.-E., & Mikolajczak, M. (2018). A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Roskam, I., Raes, M.-E., & Mikolajczak, M. (2017). Exhausted Parents: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Parental Burnout Inventory.  Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Antecedents and risk factors of PB

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Cruciani, G., Quintigliano, M., Speranza, A. M., Baiocco, R., Carone, N., & Lingiardi, V. (2023). Parental burnout, coparenting, and internalized sexual stigma in sexual minority parents during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Schittek, A., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Parental burnout and borderline personality stand out to predict child maltreatment. Scientific Reports. (Pdf)

 

Roskam, I.; Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Parental Burnout in the Context of Special Needs, Adoption, and
Single Parenthood. Children. (Pdf)

 

Piotrowski, K., Bojanowska, A., Szczygieł, D., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2023). Parental burnout at different stages of parenthood: Links with temperament, Big Five traits, and parental identity. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf).

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Roskam, I., Vancorenland, S., Avalosse, H., & Mikolajczak, M. (in press). The Missing Link Between Poverty and Child Maltreatment: Parental Burnout. Child Abuse and Neglect. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., & Roskam, I. (in press). 15 years of parental burnout research: Systematic review and agenda. Current Directions in Psychological Science. (pdf)

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Lin, G.-X., Szczygieł, D., & Piotrowski, K. (in press). Child-Oriented Perfectionism and Parental Burnout: The Moderating Role of Parents’ Emotional Intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences. (Pdf)

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Gato, J., Fontaine , A. M., César, F., Leal, D., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2022). Parental Burnout and Its Antecedents among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Families. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (Pdf)

 

Lin, G.-X., Goldenberg, A., Arikan, G., Brytek-Matera, A., Czepczor-Bernat, K., Manrique-Millones, D., Mikolajczak, M., Overbye, H., Roskam, I., Szczygieł, D., Ustundag-Budak, A. M., & Gross, J. J. (in press). Reappraisal, Social Support, and Parental Burnout. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Mikkonen, K., Veikkola, H-R., Sorkkila, M., & Aunola, K. (in press). Parenting styles of Finnish parents and their associations with parental burnout. Current Psychology. (Pdf)

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Raudasoja, M., Sorkkila, M. & Aunola, K. (2022). Self-Esteem, Socially Prescribed Perfectionism, and Parental Burnout. Journal of Child and Family Studies. (Pdf)

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Favez, N., Max, A., Bader, M., & Tissot, H. (2022). When not teaming up puts parents at risk: Coparenting and parental burnout in dual‐parent heterosexual families in Switzerland. Family Process. (Pdf)

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Zimmermann, G., Antonietti, J.-P., Mageau, G., Mouton, B., & Van Petegem, S. (2022). Parents’ Storm and Stress Beliefs about Adolescence: Relations with Parental Overprotection and Parental Burnout. Swiss Journal of Psychology, Swiss Psychology Open. (Pdf)

 

Sekułowicz, M., Kwiatkowski, P., Boroń-Krupińska, K., Manor-Binyamini, I., & Cieślik, B. (2022). The Effect of Personality, Disability, and Family Functioning on Burnout among Mothers of Children with Autism: A Path Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (Pdf)

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Chen, B.-B., Qu, Y., Yang, B., & Chen, X. (2021, December 23). Chinese Mothers’ Parental Burnout and Adolescents’ Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: The Mediating Role of Maternal Hostility. Developmental Psychology. (Pdf)

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Roskam, I., Philippot, P., Gallée, L., Verhofstadt, L., Soenens, B., Goodman, A., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). I am not the parent I should be : cross-sectional and prospective associations between parental self-discrepancies and parental burnout. Self and Identity, 1-26. (Pdf)

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Lin, G.-X. & Szczygieł, D. (in press). Basic Personal Values and Parental Burnout: A Brief Report. Affective Science (Pdf)

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Lebert-Charron, A., Wendland, J., Vivier-Prioul, S., Boujut, E., & Dorard, G. (2021). Does Perceived Partner Support Have an Impact on Mothers’ Mental Health and Parental Burnout? Marriage & Family Review

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Lin, G.-X., Roskam, R. & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Disentangling the effects of intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional competence on parental burnout. Current Psychology (Pdf)

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Lin, G. -X. & Szczygieł, D. (2021).  Perfectionistic parents are burnt out by hiding emotions from their children, but this effect is attenuated by emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences. (Pdf)

 

Lin, G. -X., Szczygieł, D., Hansotte, L.,  Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Aiming to be perfect parents increases the risk of parental burnout, but emotional competence mitigates it. Current Psychology. (Pdf)

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Bayot, M., Roskam, I., Gallée, L. , & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). When emotional intelligence backfires: Interactions between intra- and interpersonal emotional competencies in the case of parental burnout. Journal of Individual Differences. (Pdf)

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Lin, G. -X., Hansotte, L., Szczygieł, D., Meeussen, L., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parenting with a smile: Display rules, regulatory effort, and parental burnout. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (pdf)

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Sorkkila, M., & Aunola, K. (2020). Risk factors for parental burnout among Finnish parents: The role of socially prescribed perfectionism. Journal of Child and Family Studies. (Pdf)

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Gillis, A., & Roskam, I. (2020). Regulation between daily exhaustion and support in parenting: A dyadic perspective. International Journal of Behavioral Development. (Pdf)

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Mousavi, F.S. (2019) The Burnout and Exhaustion Due to Parental Responsibilities: The Role of Parent-Child Demographic Variables. Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies, 9 , 23. (pdf)

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Gérain, P., & Zech, E. (2018). Does informal caregiving lead to parental burnout? Comparing parents having (or not) children with mental and physical issues. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

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Lebert, A., Dorard, G., Boujut, E., & Wendland, J. (2018). Maternal burnout syndrome: contextual and psychological associated factors. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Le Vigouroux, S., & Scola, C. (2018). Differences in parental burnout: Influence of demographic factors and personality of parents and children. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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Leineweber, C., Falkenberg, H., & Albrecht, S. C. (2018). Parent's relative perceived work flexibility compared to their partner is associated with emotional exhaustion. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

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Meeussen, L., & Van Laar, C. (2018). Feeling pressure to be a perfect mother relates to parental burnout and career ambitions. Frontiers in psychology. (Pdf)

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Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2018). A Theoretical and Clinical Framework for Parental Burnout: The Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR²). Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

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​Mikolajczak, M., Raes, M-E., & Roskam, I. (2018). Exhausted parents: Sociodemographic, child-related, parent-related, parenting and family-functioning correlates of parental burnout. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

 

Sánchez-Rodríguez, R., Callahan, S., & Séjourné, N. (2018). L’épuisement des mères de jeunes enfants: une étude exploratoire. Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive. (Pdf)

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Le Vigouroux, S., Scola, C., Raes, M. E., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2017). The Big Five Personality Traits and Parental Burnout: Protective and Risk Factors. Personality and Individual Differences. (Pdf)

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Le Vigouroux, S., Charbonnier, E., & Scola, C. (2021). Profils and age-related differences in the expression of the three parental burnout dimensions. (Pdf) 

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Lindahl Norberg, A., Mellgren, K., Winiarski, J., & Forinder, U. (2014). Relationship between problems related to child late effects and parent burnout after pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Pediatric Transplantation. (Pdf)

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Lindström, C., Åman, J., & Norberg, A. L. (2011). Parental burnout in relation to sociodemographic, psychosocial and personality factors as well as disease duration and glycaemic control in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Acta Paediatrica. (Pdf)

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Lindström, C., Åman, J., & Norberg, A. L. (2010). Increased prevalence of burnout symptoms in parents of chronically ill children. Acta Paediatrica. (Pdf)

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Norberg, A. L. (2010). Parents of children surviving a brain tumor: burnout and the perceived disease-related influence on everyday life. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. (Pdf)

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Norberg, A. L. (2007). Burnout in mothers and fathers of children surviving brain tumour. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. (Pdf)

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Weiss, M. J. (2002). Hardiness and social support as predictors of stress in mothers of typical children, children with autism, and children with mental retardation. Autism. (Pdf)

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Impact of COVID 19

 

Piotrowski, K. (in press, 2023). Trajectories of Parental Burnout in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Family Relations. (Pdf)

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Wiemer, S. & Clarkson, L. (2022).  “Spread too thin”: Parents’ experiences of burnout during COVID-19 in Australia. Family Relations. (Pdf)

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Van Bakel, H., Bastiaansen, C., Hall, R., Schwabe, I.,  Verspeek, E., Gross, J.J., Ackerlund Brandt, J., Aguiar, J., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Bajgarová, Z., Beyers, W., Bílková, Z., Boujut, E., Brytek- Matera, A., Chen, B-B., Dorard, G., Eom, M….,  & Roskam, I. (2022). Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Perspectives in Psychology. (Pdf).

 

Aguiar, J., Matias, M., Braz, A.C., César, F., Coimbra, S., Gaspar, M.F. and Fontaine, A.M. (2021), Parental Burnout and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Portuguese Parents Experienced Lockdown Measures. Family Relations. (Pdf)

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Chen, M., Bai, Y., Fu, M., Huang, N., Ahmed, F., Shahid, M., Wang, X., Liu, C., Feng, X. L., & Guo, J. (2022). The Associations Between Parental Burnout and Mental Health Symptoms Among Chinese Parents With Young Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry. (Pdf)

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Swit, C. S., & Breen, R. (2022). Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout. Journal of Family Issues.

 

Woine, A., Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J., van Bakel, H., & Roskam, I. (in press). The Role of Cognitive Appraisals in Parental Burnout: A Preliminary Analysis During the Covid-19 Quarantine. Current Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Skjerdingstad, N., Johnson, M., Johnson, S., Hoffart, A., & Ebrahimi, O. (2021). Parental burnout during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Family Process. (Pdf)

 

Vertsberger, D., Roskam, I. Talmon, A., van Bakel, H., Hall, R., Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. (in press). Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Risk and Resilience Factors for Parental Burnout. Cognition and Emotion. (Pdf)

 

Mousavi, S. F. (2020) Psychological Well-Being, Marital Satisfaction, and Parental Burnout in Iranian Parents: The Effect of Home Quarantine During COVID-19 Outbreaks. Frontiers in Psychology. (Pdf)

 

Sorkkila, M., & Aunola, K. (2021). Resilience and Parental Burnout Among Finnish Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Variable and Person-Oriented Approaches. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families. (Pdf)

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Kerr, M.L., Fanning, K. A., Huynh, T., Botto, I., & Kim, C.N. (2021). Parents’ Self-Reported Psychological Impacts of
COVID-19: Associations With Parental Burnout, Child Behavior, and Income. Journal of Pediateric Psychology. (Pdf)

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Kerr, M.L., Rasmussen, H. F., Fanning, K. A., & Braaten, S. M. (2021). Parenting During COVID-19: A Study of Parents’ Experiences Across Gender and Income Levels. Family Relations. (Pdf)

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Biological correlates of PB

 

Brianda, M.E., Roskam, I. & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Psychoneuroendocrinology research is needed on parental burnout: A response to Walther, Walther, and Heald’s comment on Hair cortisol concentrations as a biomarker of parental burnout”. Psychoneuroendocrinology (Pdf).

 

Brianda, M-E., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Hair Cortisol Concentration as a Biomarker of Parental Burnout . Psychoneuroendocrinology. (Pdf)

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Cultural correlates of PB

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Roskam, I., the International Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB), & Mikolajczak, M. (in press). Three reasons why parental burnout is more prevalent in individualistic countries : A mediation study in 36 countries. Social Psychiatry and Psyciatrhic Epidemiology. (Pdf)

 

Matias, M. Aguiar, J., Fontaine, A. M., ... Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2023). Profiles of Parental Burnout around the Globe: Similarities and Differences across 36 Countries. Cross-Cultural Research. (Pdf).

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Van Bakel H., Bastiaansen C., Hall, R. …, & Roskam, I. (2022). Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Perspectives in Psychology 2022;11:141-52.(Pdf).

 

Lin, G.-X., Mikolajczak, M., Keller, H., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Barham, E., Besson, E., Blanchard, M. A., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-Matera, A., César, F., Chen, B.-B., Dorald, G., Dunsmuir, S., Egorova, N., Escobar, M. J., Favez, N., Fontaine, A. M.,…, Roskam, I. (International Investigation of Parental Burnout Consortium) (In press) Parenting culture(s): Ideal-Parent beliefs across 37 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. (Pdf)

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Roskam, I. Gallée, L., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arena, A., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Barham, E.J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M.E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B.-B., Dorard, G., ..., Mikolajczak, M. (International Investigation of Parental Burnout Consortium) (2022). Gender equality and maternal burnout: a 40-country study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. (Pdf)

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Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Artavia, M., Avalosse, H., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Bahati, C., Barham, E. J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. -E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Bhen, B. B., Dorard, G.,… Mikolajczak, M.  (International Investigation of Parental Burnout Consortium) (2021). Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study. Affective Science. (Pdf).

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Gender-related differences in PB

 

Sorkkila, M., & Aunola, K. (2021). Burned-out Fathers and Untold Stories : Mixed Methods Investigation of the Demands and Resources of Finnish Fathers. Family Journal (Pdf)

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Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020).  Gender Differences in the Nature, the Antecedents, and the Consequences of Parental Burnout. Sex Roles. (Pdf)

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Stages of PB

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Roskam, I. & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). The Slippery Slope of Parental Exhaustion:
A Process Model of Parental Burnout. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. (Pdf)

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Consequences of PB

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Roskam, I., Vancorenland, S., Avalosse, H., & Mikolajczak, M. (in press). The Missing Link Between Poverty and Child Maltreatment: Parental Burnout. Child Abuse and Neglect. (Pdf)

 

Chen, B.B., Qu, Y., Yang, B., & Chen, X. (2021). Chinese Mothers’ Parental Burnout and Adolescents’ Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: The Mediating Role of Maternal Hostility. Developmental Psychology (Preprint)

 

Piotrowski K. (2021). How many parents regret having children and how it is linked to their personality and health: Two studies with national samples in Poland. Plos One (Pdf)

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Szczygieł, D., Sekulowicz, M., Kwiatkowski, P., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Validation of the Polish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. (Pdf)

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Hansotte, L., Nguyen, N., Roskam, I., Stinglhamber, F. & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Are all Burned Out Parents Neglectful and Violent? A Latent Profile Analysis. Journal of Child and Family Studies (Preprint).

 

Griffith, A.K. (2020). Parental Burnout and Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Family Violence (Preprint)

 

Mikolajczak, M., Brianda, M. E., Avalosse, H., & Roskam, I. (2018). Consequences of parental burnout: Its specific effect on child neglect and violence. Child Abuse and Neglect. (Pdf)

 

Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., & Roskam, I. (2019). Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter? Clinical Psychological Science. (Pdf)

 

Gillis, A., Roskam, I. (2019). Daily Exhaustion and Support in Parenting: Impact on the Quality of the Parent–Child Relationship. Journal of Child and Family Studies (Pdf)

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Treatment of PB

 

Brianda, M.E. , Roskam, I., Gross, J.J., Franssen, A., Kapala, F., Gérard, F., Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Treating Parental Burnout: Impact of Two Treatment Modalities on Burnout Symptoms, Emotions, Hair Cortisol, and Parental Neglect and Violence. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. (Pdf)

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