The Mechanism Of Parental Burnout Affecting Problem Behavior Of Junior Middle School Students

Parental burnout is a group of negative symptoms related to parental roles,similar to but different from job burnout,It is embodied in three aspects:emotional exhaustion in parenting,emotional distance from children,and decreased parenting efficacy.Based on the Balance Between Risks and Resources of parental burnout,scholars have carried out a series of academic studies on the measurement of parenting burnout.In general,existing studies mainly focus on the measurement and antecedent variables of parental burnout,and there are few discussions on the relationship between parenting burnout and its consequences.Children are the objects of parental rearing,and the negative consequences of parental burnout will ultimately have an important impact on the physical and mental health and development of children.Based on this view,this study proposed based on the theory of family system,to explore the relationship between parental rearing burnout and adolescent problem behavior and its mechanism,introducing mediating variables from three levels of family,parents and children.In order to provide theoretical support and practical basis for the intervention of parenting burnout and adolescent problem behavior.In this study,the survey objects are 600 students and their primary caregivers collected by paired data.The sample is from two middle schools in Henan province selected by convenient sampling method.Time 1 measures parenting burnout,co-parenting,perceived social support(parents)and peer support(adolescents),Time 2 measures family functioning,psychological aggression(parents)and self-control(adolescents),and Time 3 measures problem behavior(adolescents).SPSS23 and PROCESS plug-in are used to processing and analyzing data.The main statistical methods used are independent sample T test,Pearson correlation analysis,mediation analysis,moderated mediation analysis,etc.The results showed that:(1)parental burnout significantly positively predicted adolescent problem behavior;(2)Family function mediated the relationship between parental burnout and adolescent problem behaviors;Coparenting moderated the predictive effect of parenting burnout on family functioning.When parenting burnout was low,coparenting buffered the impact of parenting burnout on family functioning.But with the increase of parenting burnout,the buffering effect of co-parenting on parenting burnout is gradually weakened and lost.(3)Parental psychological aggression plays a mediating role in the relationship between parental burnout and adolescent problem behavior;(4)Self-control plays a mediating role in the relationship between parental burnout and adolescent problem behavior.Although this study investigated the mechanism of parental burnout affecting adolescent problem behavior,which is helpful to the prevention of parental burnout and adolescent problem behavior,there are also some deficiencies.Future research can consider expanding the regional scope and age stage of subjects’ sampling and prolonging the time interval of different rounds of data collection,in order to make a more indepth discussion on the relationship between parental burnout and teenager physical and mental health.