Structural Inequities in Self-compassion and Parental Burnout

Kroshus, Emily; Hawrilenko, Matt; Tandon, Pooja; Browning, Anne; Steiner, Mary Kathleen; Christakis, Dimitri A.

doi:10.1007/s12671-023-02104-9

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“…This finding implies that structural factors may play an important role in shaping parental attitudes and practices regarding media use with children. These attitudes and practices may include many different aspects, from how appropriate and effective parents perceive media to be for their children (Rideout and Robb, 2020), to their access to various media devices, their familiarity with different types of media content, and their access to other parenting resources that may influence parental stress and burnout, such as affordable childcare (e.g., Kroshus et al, 2023). Prior studies have demonstrated that the lack of parent resources, including money, time, and energy, find it difficult to limit their children's media use (Evans et al, 2011;Minges et al, 2015;Nikken and Opree, 2018).…”

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Measuring parents' regulatory media use for themselves and their children

Suh,

Kirkorian,

Barr

et al. 2024

Front. Dev. Psychol.

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IntroductionParents often use media to manage their own or their child's emotions and behaviors, which is called “regulatory media use.” While the use of media to alleviate negative emotions and behaviors may be helpful in the short-term, there may be negative consequences in the long-term (e.g., for children's development of self-regulatory skills). Research remains limited, often relying on a single, binary question asking whether a parent ever uses media to calm their child. To enable future research on the effects of regulatory media use, this paper described initial scale development efforts for measuring parents' regulatory media use for themselves (parent scale) and their children (child scale).MethodsThese scales were tested in an aggregate sample of parents with children 1–10 years old, and with each of three subsamples representing parents of children in infancy (15-25 months old), early childhood (2–5 years old), and middle childhood (5–10 years old).ResultsOverall, the results provide initial support for the scales as a reliable tool for measuring regulatory media use. Both scales for parents and children had a stable three-factor structure that held within each of the three subsamples. Further, both scales had predictive validity, each predicting parenting stress and child screen time.DiscussionBuilding upon earlier studies that often focused on single items to measure regulatory purposes, the initial scales appear to capture a multifaceted range of regulatory uses of media. The comprehensive measurement of regulatory media use enabled by these scales can inform more effective and tailored media guidelines and interventions, and the potential applications and implications for future research are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

Measuring parents' regulatory media use for themselves and their children

Suh,

Kirkorian,

Barr

et al. 2024

Front. Dev. Psychol.

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“…Notably, however, most existing studies on parental burnout include mixed parent samples (i.e., parents of toddlers and schoolchildren; Kroshus et al, 2023;Piotrowski et al, 2023). While such approaches provide a broad view of parental burnout, they may not fully account for the unique challenges that parents face at specific stages of their child's development.…”

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The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: Parental Burnout and Parental Involvement in Chinese and German Parents From a Demands-Resources Perspective

Teuber,

Grüter,

Wang

et al. 2023

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Parents are under pressure to perform well in both professional and family life while simultaneously remaining involved in their children’s development. This pressure is reflected by the prevalence of parental burnout, which is of concern in numerous societies. Drawing upon the demands-resources framework, we investigated parental burnout, parental involvement, and their antecedents (i.e., gender, socioeconomic status, single parenthood, the number of schoolchildren, in-group collectivism, self-esteem, and parent–teacher collaboration) in a cross-cultural setting. Analyses were based on 856 Chinese and 421 German parents’ self-reports. The results of latent mean comparisons showed that Chinese parents reported more parental burnout symptoms, less parental involvement, lower global self-esteem, and higher quality of parent–teacher collaboration in comparison with German parents. Multigroup structural equation models revealed that the relationships between parental burnout, parental involvement, and presumed factors of influence were comparable between the two cultural groups. Furthermore, self-esteem and parent–teacher collaboration can be seen as factors that protect against parental burnout and should encourage parents to get involved in their children’s education. This study provides evidence of the cross-cultural validity of the demands-resources framework and novel insights into the roles of resilience and engagement as a protective function of parenting resources.

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