Family-Related Factors Contributing to Parental Burnout in Vietnam and The United Kingdom: Refining Some Layers of The Bioecological Model

Nguyen Minh, Thanh
(2026)

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Roskam, Isabelle  
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Mikolajczak, Moïra  
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Huy The Hoang Le
Abstract
Becoming a parent is a significant milestone in an individual’s life; however, this journey is not always easy. In the most challenging circumstances, when parents face multiple risk factors while lacking sufficient resources to cope, they may experience parental burnout. A central question is why parenting is relatively manageable for some individuals but exhausting for others. For over 15 years, researchers in the field of parental burnout have worked extensively to address this question. Nevertheless, several important issues remain insufficiently explored, including: (i) how factors within each bioecological system interact with parental burnout, particularly those related to the extended family; (ii) how risk and/or resource factors interact within specific bioecological systems (i.e., ontosystem, microsystem, and mesosystem); (iii) which factors emerge as key predictors of parental burnout when multiple bioecological variables are included within the same model; and (iv) whether bioecological risks and resources associated with parental burnout are similar or different across countries with distinct socio-cultural contexts. This thesis addresses these four questions across four empirical chapters. The findings suggested that, when examined in separate models, several factors across diverse bioecological layers were identified as risks or resources for parental burnout. Some factors are associated with parental burnout not only directly but also indirectly through mediation(s) or moderation(s). Key predictive factors identified in the integrated model include personal social comparison, double care burden, family routines, grandparent-parent coparenting conflict, work-family conflict, and social support. Finally, bioecological risks and resources differed between Vietnam and the UK, demonstrating both the universal and context- dependent nature of parental burnout. These findings are discussed from both research and clinical perspectives.
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Nguyen Minh, T. (2026). Family-Related Factors Contributing to Parental Burnout in Vietnam and The United Kingdom: Refining Some Layers of The Bioecological Model. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/280389