Self-Compassion and Rumination Type Mediate the Relation between Mindfulness and Parental Burnout

Paucsik, Marine; Urbanowicz, Agata Maria; Leys, Christophe; Kotsou, Ilios; Baeyens, Céline; Shankland, Rébecca

doi:10.3390/ijerph18168811

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“…It provides an important perspective because it shows alternative ways of influencing therapy or family support. By effectively preventing stress and parental burnout, family functionality can be reinforced in various areas (e.g., communication, organization of family life, care, and rehabilitation) [39,40]. At the same time, by modifying the functioning of the family system, one can expect beneficial changes in the parents' disposition and an increase in their ability to cope with problems.…”

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The Effect of Personality, Disability, and Family Functioning on Burnout among Mothers of Children with Autism: A Path Analysis

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Kwiatkowski

Manor-Binyamini

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This path analysis of mothers of children with autism aimed to investigate the relationship between maternal burnout and the mother’s subjective reporting of difficulty in childcare, family function, and personality traits. A total of 410 mothers of children with autism (mean age 39.03, SD 7.42) completed four questionnaires: Parental Burnout Measure (PBM-12), International Personality Item Pool—Big Five Markers (IPIP-BFM-20), Flexibility and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES-IV), and a survey on childcare difficulties. Path analysis using two predetermined models was used to examine the interrelations. Both models fit the empirical data equally with a Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) index of 0.000 and a 90% confidence interval (model 1: 0.000–0.052; model 2: 0.000–0.059). Path analysis revealed similar fit indexes for both models: (a) burnout is a mediator between exogenous variables and family functioning, and (b) family functioning is an indirect mediator between exogenous variables and burnout. These findings suggest that increased maternal emotional instability (neuroticism) and conscientiousness can lead to increased family communication problems, which may further lead to a breakdown of the equilibrium in the family system, resulting in the mother’s dissatisfaction with family life and a consequent increased risk of maternal burnout.

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The Effect of Personality, Disability, and Family Functioning on Burnout among Mothers of Children with Autism: A Path Analysis

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Kwiatkowski

Manor-Binyamini

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“…It is believed to be an important factor in the development of depression, impaired physical and mental health, and an increase in work-related burnout ( 21 – 23 ). Numerous studies have also emphasized the positive mediating role of rumination in emotional exhaustion ( 24 ). Affective rumination continuously consumes cognitive and emotional resources.…”

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Emotional exhaustion and unhealthy eating among COVID-19 front-line healthcare workers during recuperation: A cross-sectional study

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Zhou

Song

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Front. Public Health

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ObjectiveThousands of healthcare workers on the frontlines who have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic could face emotional and mental health risks even after their critical pandemic work. This study examined the impact of affective rumination on emotional exhaustion and the spillover effect of affective rumination on unhealthy food consumption among healthcare workers during recuperation.MethodsA total of 418 frontline healthcare workers from 10 Chinese medical institutions were recruited through random cluster sampling. A linear mixed model in SPSS25.0 was performed for hierarchical regression to analyze the effect of affective rumination on unhealthy food consumption via emotional exhaustion. A conditional process analysis was employed to investigate the moderating role of family support in the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion.ResultsFront-line healthcare workers scored at a medium level on an emotional exhaustion scale (2.45 ± 0.88). Affective rumination mediated by emotional exhaustion had a significant positive predictive effect on unhealthy food consumption. The indirect effect accounted for ~43.9% of the total effect. Family support amplified the effect of emotional exhaustion on unhealthy food consumption (β = 0.092, p < 0.05).ConclusionAffective rumination could be a cause of emotional exhaustion and unhealthy food consumption. First-line healthcare workers could be screened for possible emotional exhaustion through the evaluation of affective rumination in order to provide them with targeted interventions. Family support did not prove to be beneficial in all cases as it enhanced the positive effect of emotional exhaustion on unhealthy eating in the current study. Therefore, family support should be carefully integrated in future interventions.

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“…Research has identified several protective factors against parental burnout: emotional competencies (Bayot et al, 2021;Lin et al, 2021a;Lin et al, 2021b); mindfulness, selfcompassion, concrete ruminations (Paucsik et al, 2021); and low levels of perfectionism (Kawamoto et al, 2018;Sorkkila & Aunola, 2020). The studies included in the present meta-analyses address some of these competencies.…”

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“…To illustrate, based on exploratory and descriptive studies, parental burnout syndrome has been defined by the research . Subsequently, causality based studies aimed to identify risk and protective factors from parental burnout (Paucsik et al, 2021) as well as the extent to which psychological interventions can contribute to the reduction of parental burnout .…”

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“…Subsequent studies also outlined the protective role of emotional competencies against parental burnout (Bayot et al, 2021;Lin et al, 2021a;Lin et al, 2021b). In addition, Paucsik et al, (2021) showed that mindfulness trait and practice predicted the lower scores of parental burnout, through the increase of self-compassion and concrete ruminations, and the decrease in abstract ruminations. All these findings contributed to identify processes involved in the development and maintenance of parental burnout suggesting the plausible therapeutic courses of action.…”

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Preventing and reducing parental burnout: A clinical trial of three interventions based on cognitive behavioural therapy, second wave positive psychology, and informal mindfulness practices

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Parental burnout is a context-specific syndrome characterised by four clusters of symptoms: (1) emotional and physical exhaustion related to parenting, (2) emotional distancing from the child, (3) decreased sense of self-efficacy and accomplishment in parental role, and (4) the perception of no longer being a good parent (Roskam et al., 2017, 2018). Considering the high prevalence of parental burnout (up to 9% in general population and up to 30% among the parents of chronically ill children) as well as its deleterious consequences for the parent, the couple, and for the child it appears crucial to implement preventive measures and treatment for parental burnout (Lindström et al., 2010; Mikolajczak, Brianda et al., 2018; Roskam et al., 2021). The present doctoral thesis contributes to the field of prevention and treatment of parental burnout and its deleterious consequences through the evaluation of the efficacy of psychological interventions in this context. The first part of this doctoral thesis focuses on the identification and evaluation of already existing interventions for parental burnout. To this end, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the interventions addressed to parents of children with chronic diseases and parents from the general population. In the second part of the thesis, we focused on the evaluation of three psychological group interventions. To achieve this objective, we conducted a clinical trial of three interventions based on: (1) cognitive behavioural therapy; (2) second wave positive psychology; and (3) informal mindfulness practices. These three approaches seem to target psychological processes involved in the development and maintenance of parental burnout (e.g., perfectionism, ruminations, poor emotional skills; Kawamoto et al., 2018; Lin et al., 2021; Mikolajczak et al., 2018; Paucsik et al., 2021; Sorkkila & Aunola, 2020), as well as to promote protective factors which may contribute to the reduction of parental burnout severity (e.g., stress-management skills, self-awareness, self-compassion, self-efficacy, emotional competencies, psychological flexibility; Antoni et al., 2007; Brown & Ryan, 2003; Paucsik et al., 2021; Shankland et al., 2018, 2021). The three programmes, as well as their mechanisms of action, are presented in the sections dedicated respectively to each intervention study. Finally, the last part of the thesis is dedicated to the summary and general discussion of the findings and their implications. The five studies presented in this doctoral thesis constitute independent articles : (1) A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions for parental burnout; (2) Cognitive Behavioural Stress Management (CBSM) for parents: prevention and reduction of parental burnout; (3) Acceptability of Cognitive Behavioural Stress Management Intervention for parental burnout reduction and prevention: a mixed methods approach; (4) Positive psychology in the prevention and reduction of parental burnout: the CARE programme; (5) Informal mindfulness practices, a new approach to the prevention and reduction of parental burnout.

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Self-Compassion and Rumination Type Mediate the Relation between Mindfulness and Parental Burnout

Cited by 15 publications

References 77 publications

The Effect of Personality, Disability, and Family Functioning on Burnout among Mothers of Children with Autism: A Path Analysis

The Effect of Personality, Disability, and Family Functioning on Burnout among Mothers of Children with Autism: A Path Analysis

Emotional exhaustion and unhealthy eating among COVID-19 front-line healthcare workers during recuperation: A cross-sectional study

Preventing and reducing parental burnout: A clinical trial of three interventions based on cognitive behavioural therapy, second wave positive psychology, and informal mindfulness practices

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