1. Self-Compassion and Rumination Type Mediate the Relation between Mindfulness and Parental Burnout
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Agata Urbanowicz, Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou, Christophe Leys, Marine Paucsik, Céline Baeyens, Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie : Personnalité, Cognition, Changement Social (LIP-PC2S), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation [Bruxelles] (ULB), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Développement, Individu, Processus, Handicap, Éducation (DIPHE), and Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)
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Adult ,Male ,ruminations ,050103 clinical psychology ,Mindfulness ,mindfulness ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology ,Context (language use) ,Burnout ,050105 experimental psychology ,Article ,parental burnout ,lockdown ,Psychologie clinique ,Psychologie générale ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Burnout, Professional ,Pandemics ,SARS-CoV-2 ,05 social sciences ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,Mental health ,self-compassion ,3. Good health ,Psychologie ,Rumination ,Communicable Disease Control ,Trait ,Medicine ,Female ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,medicine.symptom ,Empathy ,Psychology ,Self-compassion ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The COVID-19 lockdown increased the day-to-day challenges faced by parents, and thereby may have increased parental burnout risk. Therefore, identifying parental burnout protection factors is essential. This study aimed to assess the protective role of the following factors which can be increased through mindfulness practice: trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and concrete vs. abstract ruminations. A total of 459 parents (Mage = 40, 98.7% female) completed self-reported questionnaires at two-time points to assess the predictive role of mindfulness on parental burnout, self-compassion and rumination type, and the mediating role of self-compassion and rumination type in the relation between mindfulness and parental burnout. Results showed that trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and rumination type at Time 1 predicted levels of parental burnout at Time 2. Self-compassion (indirect effects: b = − 22, 95% CI = [−38, −05], p <, 0.01), concrete ruminations (indirect effects: b = −20, 95% CI = [−32, −09], p <, 0.001), and abstract ruminations (indirect effects: b = −0.54, 95% CI = [−71, −37], p <, 0.001) partially mediated the relation between trait-mindfulness and parental burnout. These findings showed that trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and concrete (vs. abstract) ruminations may help prevent parental burnout in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These results contribute to the field of research on parental burnout prevention and will allow for the development of effective approaches to mental health promotion in parents.
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- 2021
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