Higher momentary parental burnout predicts lower subsequent emotional expression in parents during the festive season.

ABSTRACT: This study adopted a within-person lens to unpack parental burnout and genuine emotional expression, focusing on their interplay and dynamic patterns - inertia, variability, and person-specific mean - during the Christmas season, an emotionally charged period that offers a valuable time window to study affective dynamics in parenting. Using the experience sampling method, we conducted a 35-day real-time study with 293 U.K. parents (14,451 observations), supplemented by baseline and follow-up assessments. Dynamic structural equation modeling was used to test reciprocal within-person relations between both constructs over time, to assess individual differences in dynamic patterns, and to explore whether these patterns mediated changes in burnout and expression from baseline to follow-up. Res

SUBMITTER: Teuber Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12644506 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature