The role of cognitive appraisals in parental burnout: a preliminary analysis during the COVID-19 quarantine.

ABSTRACT: Counter-intuitively, sociodemographic characteristics account for a small proportion of explained variance in parental burnout. The present study conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic asks whether (i) sociodemographic characteristics are more predictive of parental burnout than usual in a situation of lockdown, (ii) situational factors, that is, the specific restrictive living conditions inherent in the context of lockdown, predict parental burnout better than sociodemographic characteristics do, and (iii) the impact of both sociodemographic and situational factors is moderated or mediated by the parents' subjective perception of the impact that the health crisis has had on their parenting circumstances. Results show that, within the context of lockdown, both sociodemographic and situatio

SUBMITTER: Woine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8755972 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature