Understudied social influences on work-related and parental burnout: Social media-related emotions, comparisons, and the "do it all discrepancy".

ABSTRACT: Recent societal changes, including a global pandemic, have exacerbated experiences of and attention to burnout related to work and parenting. In the present study, we investigated how several social forces can act as demands and resources to impact work-related and parental burnout. We tested two primary hypotheses in a sample of women who responded to an online survey (N for analyses ranged from 2376 to 3525). We found that social comparisons, social media use, negative emotions when comparing oneself to others on social media, and a high do it all discrepancy (feeling one should be able to do it all more so than perceptions that one can) were correlated with higher reports of work-related and parental burnout. Alternatively, positive emotions when comparing oneself to others and s

SUBMITTER: Black KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9532694 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature