Validation of the Turkish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)

Parental burnout in Romania: Validity of the Romanian version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA‐RO)

“…Considering the Romanian cultural background that was set out in the introduction section, expected gender differences were found, which was not the case in studies conducted in Eastern and collectivistic cultures [i.e., Iran (Mousavi et al, 2020) and Turkey (Arikan et al, 2020)] included in the current thematic issue. Although gender stereotypes have faded amid the adoption of an egalitarian model of the family including greater flexibility between partners, Romanians' attitudes towards the family still remain predominantly conservative.…”

Parenting and parental burnout in Africa

“…Fifth, it must be acknowledged that the extremely high correlations found between the four dimensions of parental burnout, question the discriminant validity of the four subscales. This problem is however not specific to African parents but has been observed in other countries suggesting the existence of a unique construct of parental burnout around the world (Arikan, Üstündag-Budak, Akün, Mikolajczak, & Roskam, 2020;Matias et al, 2020;Mousavi, Mikolajczak, & Roskam, 2020). Lastly, the different sampling procedures (i.e., stratified, convenience, and snowball) and survey methods (paper and pencil, and in some cases a mix of the two) used in the four countries mean that the results need to be interpreted with great caution.…”

The role of emotion regulation and maternal symptoms in Turkish mothers’ caregiving helplessness during toddlerhood

“…The current study is one of the first studies to investigate factors that can contribute to caregiving helplessness and the possible emotional mechanism of the caregiving helplessness in a non-western and relatively more collectivist culture. We know from existing research in Turkey that mothers can experience parental burnout (Arikan et al, 2020 ) and can engage in erroneous attributions about their children (Arikan et al, 2019 ). Thus, there could be culturally relevant factors such as family type, gender roles and co-parenting that can shape maternal feelings about caregiving.…”