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Developmental, child, family and couple

Parental Burnout Assessment.

PBA

What it measures
Parental burnout: exhaustion in the parental role, contrast with previous parental self, feelings of being fed up with parenting, emotional distancing from the children.
Length and format
23 items. 7-pt frequency (never - every day) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
~30+ languages through the IIPB consortium, incl. FR, NL, EN, ES, DE, PT, IT, PL, RU, ZH, JA
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Roskam, I., Brianda, M.-E., & Mikolajczak, M. (2018). A step forward in the conceptualization and measurement of parental burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 758.

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