Abstract
The purpose of this study was to validate the Parental Burnout Inventory (PBI) in a Dutch sample of working parents. The Dutch version of the PBI and questionnaires about work were administered to 627 working parents, with at least one child living at home. We investigated whether the tri-dimensional structure of the PBI held in a sample of male and female employed parents. Furthermore, we examined the relationships between PBI and the constructs work-related burnout, depressive mood, parenting stress and work-family conflict, which we assessed with widely used and validated instruments, i.e., emotional exhaustion [a subscale of the Dutch version of Maslach’s Burnout Inventory], a Dutch Parental Stress Questionnaire and Work-Family Conflict. The results support the validity of a tri-dimensional parental burnout syndrome, including exhaustion, distancing and inefficacy. Low to moderate correlations between parents’ burnout symptoms and professional exhaustion, parenting stress, depressive complaints and work-family conflict experiences were found, suggesting that the concept of PBI differs significantly from the concepts of job burnout, depression and stress, respectively. The current study confirms that some parents are extremely exhausted by their parental role. However, the number of Dutch employees reporting extreme parental burnout is rather low.
Highlights
Nowadays, work-related stress is among the main causes of occupational diseases (Van Zwieten et al, 2014)
The aim of the current study is to examine the validity of the Dutch translation of the Parental Burnout Inventory (PBI) by replicating the work of Roskam et al (2017) among male and female employees with children living at home in the Netherlands
To test its underlying structure, the 22 items of the PBI were first subjected to principal components analysis (PCA) using SPSS version 22
Summary
Work-related stress is among the main causes of occupational diseases (Van Zwieten et al, 2014). Work-related burn-out accounts for individuals who have to fulfill both professional and parental responsibilities (Kossek and Lautsch, 2012). These individuals are seriously facing the challenge of participating successfully both as employee and family member, since involvement in any role is associated with additional demands on working hours, time allocated to care for children, and time for household tasks (Prottas and Hyland, 2011). As a result of this accumulation of enduring, excessive role demands and associated stress, more and more people suffer from burnout (Weber and Jaekel-Reinhard, 2000; Maslach et al, 2001; Brewer and Shapard, 2004)
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