Aiming to be perfect parents increases the risk of parental burnout, but emotional competence mitigates it
(2023) Current Psychology — Vol. 42, n° 2 (2023)
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Lin, Gao-Xian 
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- (en) Parenting perfectionism, especially the dimension of perfectionistic concerns—preoccupation with self-criticism including concern over mistakes and doubts about own behaviors—, has been shown to be a weighty factor for parental burnout. Drawing on the Balance between Risks and Resources (BR2 ) theory of parental burnout, this paper examines whether emotional competence could moderate/buffer the effect of parenting perfectionism on parental burnout. We investigated this question in two independent samples of parents collected in Belgium (N = 347) and Poland (N = 377). The results of both studies show that emotional competence cancels out the detrimental effect of perfectionistic concerns on parental burnout. Beyond its contribution to parenting perfectionism and emotional competence literatures, the present article also provides further evidence of the potential of the BR 2 theory of parental burnout.
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Lin, G.-X., Szczygiel, D., Hansotte, L., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Aiming to be perfect parents increases the risk of parental burnout, but emotional competence mitigates it. Current Psychology, 42(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01509-w (Original work published 2023)