Affect anchored to the parenting context ebbs and flows. This study used affective dynamic indices to examine whether the way parenting affect fluctuates relates to parental dysfunction. By reanalyzing daily diary data from 180 parents, we found that inertia (i.e., persistence) of emotional distance predicts parental burnout severity.
Blanchard, A., Heeren, A., & et al. (2024). The Affective Dynamics of Parenting: Inertia of Emotional Distance as a Key Characteristic of Parental Burnout Severity. 2024 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, USA. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/231978