Parental Burnout Around the Globe: A 42-Country Study

Isabelle Roskam (1) , Joyce Aguiar (2) , Ege Akgun (3) , Gizem Arikan (4) , Mariana Artavia , Hervé Avalosse , Kaisa Aunola (5) , Michel Bader (6) , Claire Bahati (7) , Elizabeth Barham (8) , Eliane Besson (9) , Wim Beyers (10) , Emilie Boujut (11) , Maria Elena Brianda (1) , Anna Brytek-Matera (12) , Noémie Carbonneau (13) , Filipa César (2) , Bin-Bin Chen (14) , Géraldine Dorard (11) , Luciana Carla dos Santos Elias (15) , Sandra Dunsmuir (16) , Natalia Egorova (17) , Nicolas Favez (18) , Anne-Marie Fontaine (2) , Heather Foran (19) , Julia Fricke (20) , Kaichiro Furutani (21) , Laura Gallée (1) , Myrna Gannagé (9) , Maria Gaspar (22) , Lucie Godbout (13) , Amit Goldenberg (23) , James Gross (24) , Maria Ancuta Gurza , Ruby Hall (25) , Muhammad Aamir Hashmi (26) , Ogma Hatta (1) , Mai Helmy (27) , Thi Vân Hoang (28) , Mai Trang Huynh (28) , Emerence Kaneza , Taishi Kawamoto (29) , Goran Knezevic (30) , Bassantéa Lodegaèna Kpassagou (31) , Ljiljana Lazarevic (30) , Sarah Le Vigouroux (32) , Astrid Lebert-Charron (11) , Vanessa Leme (33) , Gao-Xian Lin (1) , Carolyn Maccann (34) , Denisse Manrique-Millones (35) , Marisa Matias (2) , María Isabel Miranda-Orrego (36) , Marina Miscioscia (37) , Clara Morgades-Bamba (38) , Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi (39) , Badra Moutassem-Mimouni (40) , Ana Muntean (41) , Hugh Murphy (19) , Alexis Ndayizigiye , Josué Ngnombouowo Tenkue (42) , Sally Olderbak (43) , Sophie Ornawka (13) , Fatumo Osman (44) , Daniela Oyarce-Cadiz (45) , Pablo Pérez-Díaz (16, 46) , Konstantinos Petrides (16) , Claudia Pineda-Marin (47) , Katharina Prandstetter (19) , Alena Prikhidko (48) , Ricardo Ricci (49) , Fernando Salinas-Quiroz (50) , Raquel Sánchez-Rodríguez (51) , Ainize Sarrionandia (52) , Céline Scola (53) , Vincent Sezibera (7) , Paola Silva (54) , Alessandra Simonelli (37) , Bart Soenens (10) , Emma Sorbring , Matilda Sorkkila (5) , Charlotte Schrooyen (10) , Elena Stănculescu (55) , Elena Starchenkova (56) , Dorota Szczygiel (57) , Javier Tapia (58) , Thi Minh Thuy Tri (28) , Mélissa Tremblay (13) , A. Meltem Ustundag-Budak (59) , Maday Valdés Pacheco (60) , Hedwig van Bakel (25) , Lesley Verhofstadt (10) , Jaqueline Wendland (11) , Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong (61) , Moïra Mikolajczak (1)

1 UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
2 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
3 Ankara Üniversitesi
4 Özyeğin University
5 JYU - University of Jyväskylä
6 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
7 University of Rwanda
8 UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos
9 USJ - Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
10 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University
11 LPPS (URP_4057) - Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé
12 UWr - University of Wrocław [Poland]
13 UQTR - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
14 Fudan University [Shanghai]
15 USP - Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo
16 UCL - University College of London [London]
17 EPSM de l'agglomération lilloise - Etablissements Public de Santé Mentale de l'agglomération lilloise
18 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
19 Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt [Klagenfurt, Austria]
20 Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin]
21 HGU - Hokkai Gakuen University
22 UC - University of Coimbra [Portugal]
23 Harvard University
24 Stanford University
25 Tilburg University [Netherlands]
26 University of the Punjab
27 Menoufia University [Egypte]
28 HCMUSSH - Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities [Vietnam National University, HCM]
29 Chubu University
30 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
31 Université de Lomé [Togo]
32 APSY-V - Laboratoire Activités Physiques et Sportives et processus PSYchologiques : recherches sur les Vulnérabilités / Université de Nîmes
33 UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro [Brasil] = Rio de Janeiro State University [Brazil] = Université d'État de Rio de Janeiro [Brésil]
34 The University of Sydney
35 Universidad de San Martín de Porres
36 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
37 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
38 UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
39 Alzahra University
40 Université d'Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed [Oran]
41 UVT - Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara [România] = West University of Timișoara [Romania] = Université Ouest de Timișoara [Roumanie]
42 UY1 - Université de Yaoundé I
43 Universität Ulm - Ulm University [Ulm, Allemagne]
44 Dalarna University
45 Universidad Santo Tomas
46 Universidad Austral de Chile
47 FUKL - Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz = Konrad Lorenz University Foundation
48 FIU - Florida International University [Miami]
49 UNT - Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
50 National Pedagogic University (México)
51 CERPPS - Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Psychopathologie et Psychologie de la Santé
52 UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
53 PsyCLÉ - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie de la Connaissance, du Langage et de l'Émotion
54 UDELAR - Universidad de la República [Montevideo]
55 UniBuc - University of Bucharest
56 SPBU - Saint Petersburg State University
57 SWPS - SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
58 UCR - Universidad de Costa Rica
59 Bahcesehir University [Istanbul]
60 UH - University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana)
61 CMU - Chiang Mai University

High levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children. It is not yet clear, however, whether parental burnout varies by culture, and if so, why it might do so. In this study, we examined the prevalence of parental burnout in 42 countries (17,409 parents; 71% mothers; Mage = 39.20) and showed that the prevalence of parental burnout varies dramatically across countries. Analyses of cultural values revealed that individualistic cultures, in particular, displayed a noticeably higher prevalence and mean level of parental burnout. Indeed, individualism plays a larger role in parental burnout than either economic inequalities across countries, or any other individual and family characteristic examined so far, including the number and age of children and the number of hours spent with them. These results suggest that cultural values in Western countries may put parents under heightened levels of stress.

Mots clés: Exhaustion; Culture; Individualism; Collectivism; Prevalence

Domaines: Psychologie; Psychologie

Isabelle Roskam, Joyce Aguiar, Ege Akgun, Gizem Arikan, Mariana Artavia, et al.. Parental Burnout Around the Globe: A 42-Country Study. Affective Science, 2021, 2 (1), pp.58-79. ⟨10.1007/s42761-020-00028-4⟩. ⟨hal-03265751⟩