Parental Stress, Financial Well-Being and Burnout among Dual Career Families

Abstract

Dual career families represent a growing group of relatives of international structure, providing unique challenges as parents and guardians balance expert responsibilities with parental roles Concurrent work supervision and a cluster of sibling demands may contribute to extended parental diffusion and prevalence under specially researched in non-context. This study examined the relationship between parenting stress, financial well-being, and burnout in a sample of Pakistani dual-career mothers and fathers, and tested whether financial well-being mediated the relationship between parenting pressure and burnout, and whether there were gender differences in these variables. A go-sectional look at became feasible with three hundred twin-occupation fathers and mothers (one hundred and fifty mothers, one hundred and fifty fathers) recruited from more than one city in Punjab, Pakistan. Participants completed standardized measures of parenting stress (parenting stress scale), financial well-being (In charge financial distress/financial well-being scale), and burnout (parental burnout inventory) using Pearson correlations, pairwise stepwise regressions, mediation estimation with bootstrapping; Independent samples and t-value data were analyzed.

Significant correlations emerged between all studies variables. Parenting stress was found to be negatively correlated with monetary well-being (r = -.35, p < .01) and arguably correlated with burnout (r = .42, p < .01). Being financially secure was negatively correlated with burnout (r = -.38, p < .01). Parenting stress (β = .32, p < .001) and financial well-being (β = -.28, p < .001) explained a total of 28% of the variance in burnout (R2 = .28, F(2, 297) = 58.67, p < .001). Being financially adequate partially mediated the relationship between parenting stress and burnout (indirect effect β = -.09, 95% CI [-.14, -.05]). Mothers reported drastically higher parenting stress (t = -four.98, p < .001, d = 0.58) and burnout (t = -5.67, p < .001, d = zero.sixty-five), and decreased monetary appropriateness-of-existence (t = -four.98, p < .001, d = 0.58). and the fathers in comparison.

Parenting stress and financial well-being are major predictors of burnout among dual-career mothers and fathers, and financial nice acts as a partial mediator. Mothers show greater vulnerability in all domains. Interventions aimed at reducing parental stress and financial well-being may also help to reduce the risk of burnout in dual-career families.