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Burnout across boundaries: Can parental burnout directly or indirectly influence work outcomes?

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CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 16, Pages 14065-14075

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02687-3

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Parental burnout; Job burnout; Depression; Job satisfaction; Turnover intentions; Counterproductive work behavior

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The study found that parental burnout may have limited impacts upon work outcomes, further research is needed. The research explores whether parental burnout can manifest within the workplace, and whether depression mediates the relationship between parental burnout and work outcomes.
Burnout, while historically considered a work-related condition, can be associated with parenting where it can have direct impacts upon parental outcomes and one's personal resources such as mental health. However, little is known about the domain-incongruent effects of burnout and thus whether parental burnout can manifest within the workplace. The current study uses longitudinal data collected from 499 parents over three intervals across an 8-month period to explore two possible mechanisms. Firstly, a direct relationship is explored by considering whether parental burnout provides incremental validity above job burnout in the prediction of three work outcomes: job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and counterproductive work behaviors. Secondly, it is explored whether depression mediates the relationship between parental burnout and work outcomes. Findings suggest parental burnout may have limited impacts upon work outcomes, providing the impetus for a new direction of research to better understand whether or how burnout in one domain of life can influence the outcomes in other life domains.

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