On the assessment, consequences, treatment, and psychoneuroendocrinology of parental burnout
(2021)
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- Parental burnout is a chronic syndrome resulting from the enduring exposure to parenting stress without sufficient resources to compensate. At the beginning of the current thesis, parental burnout was a newborn research topic. Previous studies had validated a preliminary assessment tool, checked the construct's distinctiveness, estimated its prevalence, and highlighted the main risk factors. Although limited, existing knowledge was sufficient to prove the need to pursue parental burnout investigation as several questions remained unanswered. This work presents six empirical studies aimed at expanding parental burnout knowledge by addressing the following topics: the improvement of parental burnout assessment, the investigation of its consequences and biological correlates, and the development of effective interventions. Overall, our results provide substantial evidence of the seriousness of this syndrome, but also insights for future research, and keys for prevention and treatment.
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UCLouvain SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Brianda, M. E. (2021). On the assessment, consequences, treatment, and psychoneuroendocrinology of parental burnout. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/115822