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Validity of the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)
Author(s) -
Aunola Kaisa,
Sorkkila Matilda,
Tolvanen Asko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12654
Subject(s) - psychology , burnout , cronbach's alpha , distancing , clinical psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , emotional exhaustion , developmental psychology , internal consistency , feeling , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , social psychology , covid-19 , medicine , statistics , mathematics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The aim of the present study was to validate the Finnish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) using data from 1,688 Finnish parents (91% mothers) living in Finland with at least one child living at home. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the theoretical four‐factor structure of the PBA – emotional exhaustion in one’s parental role, contrast with previous parental self, feelings of being fed up with one’s parental role, and emotional distancing from one’s children. Internal consistency for the total scale was excellent (Cronbach’s alpha ≥ 0.90) and for the subscales from acceptable (alpha ≥ 0.70) to excellent. The results further demonstrated strict factorial invariance of PBA across genders and educational status groups. Finally, the PBA and its four subscales correlated as expected with the three criteria variables (depressive symptoms, sleep disruptions, and self‐esteem), the latent factors of all three criteria variables being still clearly unique and separate constructions from parental burnout factors.