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Background: The etiological model of parental burnout, that is, the Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR2) (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018), posits that the syndrome results from a chronic imbalance between parental stress-aggravating and parental stress-relieving factors. Empirical evidence which has accumulated thus far suggests further investigating the internal structure of BR2. Goals: The present study examines (i) the reliability indexes of the BR2 instrument and (ii) further investigates whether the instrument would host a general latent factor which would capture the parent’s cognitive appraisals. Method: A sample of 1,473 parents took part in the study. Two factor models were tested: a unidimensional model (with the subjective perception as the unique latent structure to BR2 items) and a bifactor model composed of one general latent factor (i.e., the parent’s subjective perception) and several specific latent factors which correspond to the different factors measured in BR2 (e.g., emotional competence, the relationship between the parent and the child, co-parenting, etc.). Results showed that the unidimensional model poorly fitted the data and that the bifactor model failed to explain the dataset (no convergence achieved). Conclusion: Parents’ answers to BR2 are not underlid by a common and general tendency to interpret their parenting situation in an either general positive or general negative way.
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Woine, A., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Do cognitive appraisals explain the high reliability of the Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR2)? Psychology, 14, 52-68. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2023.141004 (Original work published 2023)