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Piotrowski K, Bojanowska A, Szczygieł D, Mikolajczak M, Roskam I. Parental burnout at different stages of parenthood: Links with temperament, Big Five traits, and parental identity. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1087977. [PMID: 37063574 PMCID: PMC10102599 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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The study aimed to analyze the links between traits from different levels of personality organization and parental burnout. To answer the research questions, a cross-sectional study was conducted with 1,471 parents aged 19 to 45 years (mean age 35.30, SD = 5.98). The results showed that the severity of parental burnout was linked to traits ranging from biologically determined temperament traits to basic personality traits to a sense of parental identity. More specifically, we found higher burnout among parents who have difficulty shifting between tasks and coping with strong stimulation, low emotional stability and conscientiousness, and low identification with the parental role. We also found that certain personality traits were more strongly associated with parental burnout among those who had children in early childhood or preschool period (under the age of seven) than those in later stages of parenthood. The study contributes knowledge about the personality correlates of parental burnout and the role of personality at different stages of parenthood.
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Affiliation(s)
- Konrad Piotrowski
- Center for Research on Personality Development, SWPS University, Poznań, Poland
- *Correspondence: Konrad Piotrowski,
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- Psychological Sciences Research Institute, University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Psychological Sciences Research Institute, University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Wen X, Ren J, Li X, Li J, Chen S. Parents' personality, parenting stress, and problem behaviors of children with special needs in China before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 42:1-12. [PMID: 36277263 PMCID: PMC9580424 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03869-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The positive predictive effect of children's problem behaviors on parenting stress has been verified to some extent, but research on parents of children with special needs remains insufficient. Moreover, the role of parental personality traits in the relationship between children's problem behaviors and parenting stress, and whether it differs from before the COVID-19 pandemic, remains unclear. Accordingly, in this study, online questionnaires were used to survey parents of children with autism and intellectual disabilities in China - 337 parents before and 604 during the COVID-19 pandemic - to explore the relationship between problem behaviors in the children and parenting stress as well as the moderating effect of parents' personality. The results showed that problem behaviors of children with autism and intellectual disabilities had a positive predictive effect on parenting stress. However, there was no significant difference in this effect before and during the pandemic. In addition, the relationship between children's problem behaviors and parenting stress was moderated by the Agreeableness and Neuroticism of the parents, but only during COVID-19 pandemic. The research results suggest that, during the pandemic when facing problem behaviors of children with autism or intellectual disabilities, positive personality characteristics such as Agreeableness have a protective effect on parenting stress. By contrast, negative personality characteristics such as Neuroticism are risk factors. The study results provide evidence from special groups regarding the role of parents' personalities in the parent - child interaction and the parenting stress models.
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- Xiaohong Wen
- School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- Center for Special Education Research, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Huan Shi Road Primary School, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- Foshan Fumi Rehabilitation Technology Co., Ltd, Fushan, China
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- School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- Center for Special Education Research, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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Ulrich SM, Lux U, Liel C, Walper S. Long-term effects of targeted prevention programmes for families with young children: A population-based study on parenting stress and children's negative emotionality. Child Care Health Dev 2022; 48:763-771. [PMID: 35170070 DOI: 10.1111/cch.12985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many prevention programmes for families focus parental adversities and adverse childhood experiences. Effects of such programmes are often examined in clinical trials; there is less research on effects under naturalistic conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal association between parenting stress and child's negative emotionality, its modification through targeted prevention programmes, and to investigate the effects in the general population. METHODS Data were taken from a sample of n = 903 families with infants (mean age: 13.3 months) who participated in a baseline study (T1) and a follow-up study (T2) 2 years later. The survey included parental self-report measurements on parenting stress and child's negative emotionality (T1 and T2 each) and targeted prevention programmes (T1 only). An autoregressive cross-lagged panel design was used to analyse the association of parenting stress and the child's negative emotionality, including use of targeted prevention programmes as moderator. We also tested if targeted prevention programmes can reduce parenting stress or child's negative emotionality using Propensity Score Matching (PSM). RESULTS Parenting stress at T1 affected children's negative emotionality at T2, but children's negative emotionality at T1 did not affect parenting stress at T2. When targeted prevention was included as moderator, the correlation disappeared among programme users. With PSM, there was no direct effect on parenting stress or child's negative emotionality. But a subsample of parents with high parenting stress at T1 who used targeted prevention at T1 reported less child's negative emotionality problems at T2 than parents who scored high in parenting stress but did not receive targeted prevention at T1. CONCLUSION Results suggest that the spillover from parenting stress to child's negative emotionality may be modified by prevention. Prevention programmes may help to build resources and have a direct positive effect on the child, especially for parents with high parenting stress.
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- Susanne M Ulrich
- National Centre for Early Prevention, German Youth Institute, Department of Families and Family Policies, Munich, Germany
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- National Centre for Early Prevention, German Youth Institute, Department of Families and Family Policies, Munich, Germany
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- National Centre for Early Prevention, German Youth Institute, Department of Families and Family Policies, Munich, Germany
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- National Centre for Early Prevention, German Youth Institute, Department of Families and Family Policies, Munich, Germany
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Leikas S, Lahti-Pulkkinen M, Räikkönen K. Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/08902070221098908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Becoming a parent could be expected to affect personality development, but the existing results on parenthood-personality change connection are mixed. The present study investigated 2445 primi- and multiparous mothers’ facet- and domain-level changes in Neuroticism and Extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum, using latent difference score models. The results showed that Excitability and the affective facets of Neuroticism decreased, and the Neuroticism facets Impulsivity and Self-Consciousness increased during the follow-up. Furthermore, mother-perceived child difficult temperament attenuated desirable personality change and amplified the increases in Impulsivity. The results suggested that considering facet-level changes in personality development across significant life events is informative, and that mother-perceived child temperament may represent an important moderator of short-term personality change across the transition to parenthood.
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- Sointu Leikas
- Swedish School of Social Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Caiado B, Moreira H, Canavarro MC. Parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions questionnaire: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version among a sample of parents of school-aged children. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-01504-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Mohamed Ali O, Kotelnikova Y, Kryski KR, Durbin CE, Hayden EP. Parent personality and children's inattention/hyperactivity problems are related via early caregiving. INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/icd.2220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Ola Mohamed Ali
- Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology The University of New Orleans New Orleans Louisiana USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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Bürger Lazar M, Musek J. Well-being in parents of children with cancer: The impact of parental personality, coping, and the child's quality of life. Scand J Psychol 2020; 61:652-662. [PMID: 32572980 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Revised: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of parental personality, coping, and the child's quality of life on the well-being of parents of children treated for cancer. The study included 99 parents (63 mothers and 36 fathers), 41 parents during child's intensive treatment, 23 parents whose child completed intensive treatment, and 25 parents of children who completed treatment at least five years ago. The results of multivariate study have confirmed the predictive role of parental personality (especially Neuroticism); emotion-focused coping styles, and the child's quality of life (especially physical functioning) on parental well-being. About 60% of the variance in parental well-being can be attributed to the predictors. Assessing parental personality functioning and coping styles can help us identify those parents who are less emotionally stable, more prone to emotionally focused coping styles, and most likely to experience poorer well-being. Improved assessment may contribute to the development of further psychological interventions.
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- Martina Bürger Lazar
- University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia, Outpatient Rehabilitation Service, Linhartova 51, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
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- Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
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Karvonen J, Törmäkangas T, Pulkkinen L, Kokko K. Associations of temperament and personality traits with frequency of physical activity in adulthood. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Williamson D, Johnston C. Maternal ADHD Symptoms and Parenting Stress: The Roles of Parenting Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Neuroticism. J Atten Disord 2019; 23:493-505. [PMID: 28201945 DOI: 10.1177/1087054717693373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE ADHD symptoms in adults are consistently related to stress in a variety of domains, although whether the link between ADHD symptoms and stress is direct, or accounted for or moderated by other variables, is little studied. We used a cross-sectional design to examine whether parenting self-efficacy accounts for the relation between maternal ADHD symptoms and parenting stress, and whether levels of maternal neuroticism moderate this relation. METHOD A nonclinical sample of mothers of 120, six- to 12-year-old children completed surveys online. RESULTS Maternal ADHD symptoms were associated with parenting stress, but this relation was accounted for by parenting self-efficacy beliefs. Neuroticism did not moderate the relations among these variables. Covariate analyses indicated that although parenting self-efficacy beliefs remain a robust predictor of parenting stress, the relation between maternal ADHD symptoms and parenting stress can be better accounted for by other variables. CONCLUSION The results highlight the importance of self-efficacy beliefs and demonstrate that ADHD symptoms are not sufficient to understand the experience of parenting.
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Fadjukoff P, Pulkkinen L, Lyyra AL, Kokko K. Parental Identity and Its Relation to Parenting and Psychological Functioning in Middle Age. PARENTING, SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2016; 16:87-107. [PMID: 27019651 PMCID: PMC4784482 DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1134989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Objective. This article focuses on identity as a parent in relation to parenting and psychological functioning in middle age. Design. Drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, 162 participants (53% females) with children (age 36), represented the Finnish age-cohort born in 1959. Parental identity was assessed at ages 36, 42, and 50. Results. In both women and men, parental identity achievement increased from age 36 to 42 and remained stable to 50. The level of parental identity achievement was higher in women than in men. Achievement was typical for women and foreclosure for men. Participants' education, occupational status, and number of offspring were not related to parental identity status. As expected, parental identity achievement was associated with authoritative (indicated by higher nurturance and parental knowledge about the child's activities) parenting style. No significant associations emerged between parental identity foreclosure and restrictiveness as an indicator of authoritarian parenting style. The diffused men outscored others in parental stress. Achieved parental identity was related to generativity in both genders and to higher psychological and social well-being in men. Conclusions. At present, many parenting programs are targeted to young parents. This study highlighted the importance of a later parenting phase at around age 40, when for many, the children are approaching puberty. Therefore, parenting programs and support should also be designed for middle-aged parents. Specifically men may need additional support for their active consideration and engagement in the fathering role.
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- Päivi Fadjukoff
- Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- E-mail: phone +358 50 5181410
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