Feeling Pressure to Be a Perfect Mother Relates to Parental Burnout and Career Ambitions

Frontiers in Psychology

Loes Meeussen¹ 

关键词: perfect mothering norm;    intensive mothering beliefs;    parental burnout;    stress;    regulatory focus;    maternal gatekeeping;    work-family balance;    career ambitions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02113

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background and aims: Intensive mothering norms prescribe women to be perfect mothers. Recent research has shown that women’s experiences of pressure toward perfect parenting are related to higher levels of guilt and stress. The current paper follows up on this research with two aims: First, we examine how mothers regulate pressure toward perfect mothering affectively, cognitively, and behaviorally, and how such regulation may relate to parental burnout. Second, we examine how feeling pressure toward perfect mothering may spill over into mothers’ work outcomes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY