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CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02629-z
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Parental burnout; Covid-19 pandemic; Subjective perception; Cognitive appraisals
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Sociodemographic characteristics and situational factors explain only a small portion of parental burnout, while parents' cognitive appraisals of the health crisis situation play a crucial mediating and moderating role in predicting parental burnout during the pandemic.
Counter-intuitively, sociodemographic characteristics account for a small proportion of explained variance in parental burnout. The present study conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic asks whether (i) sociodemographic characteristics are more predictive of parental burnout than usual in a situation of lockdown, (ii) situational factors, that is, the specific restrictive living conditions inherent in the context of lockdown, predict parental burnout better than sociodemographic characteristics do, and (iii) the impact of both sociodemographic and situational factors is moderated or mediated by the parents' subjective perception of the impact that the health crisis has had on their parenting circumstances. Results show that, within the context of lockdown, both sociodemographic and situational factors explain a negligible proportion of variance in parental burnout. By contrast, parents' cognitive appraisals of their parenthood within the context of the health crisis were found to play both a crucial mediating and moderating role in the prediction of parental burnout.
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