Moïra Mikolajczak
Biographic Data
| ID | 127932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moïra Mikolajczak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moïra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikolajczak |
| SIGNATURE | MIKOLAJCZAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7333-1578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Do environmental concerns play an important role in the desire for children
Longitudinal Links of Parenthood Regret and Parental Burnout at the Between‐Person and Within‐Person Levels
Objective This study examines the longitudinal and reciprocal relationships between parenthood regret and parental burnout. Background Parenthood regret and parental burnout are increasingly recognized as common, yet distinct forms of negative parental experiences with potentially severe consequences for family wellbeing. Prior research has primarily studied these constructs separately, providing limited insight into how they mutually reinforce o…
The Relationship Between Parental Burnout and Child Maltreatment: The Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence
The role of parents’ basic psychological needs in parental burnout: Quantitative and qualitative insights from spontaneous speech samples on parenthood
Spiraling down: Fearful attachment style moderates the link between parental burnout and violence
Unveiling the Moral Disengagement Mechanisms in Environmentally Unfriendly Behaviors: A Mixed-Method Approach to Scale Development
Growing evidence suggests that the framework of moral disengagement is key to understanding individual behaviors in relation to the environmental crisis. We developed and validated the multi-dimensional Moral Disengagement mechanisms in Environmentally unfriendly Behaviors Scale (MD-EBS) using an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. Study 1 highlighted a set of specific moral disengagement mechanisms. Study 2 revealed an eight-factor stru…
Parental Burnout and Child Behavior: A Preliminary Analysis of Mediating and Moderating Effects of Positive Parenting
Despite its significant growth over the past fifteen years, research on parental burnout is just beginning to explore the relationships of the syndrome with child behavior. Previous research with adolescents has shown the existence of associations between parental burnout and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in the offspring. The current study is an attempt to (i) replicate this preliminary evidence specifically among Chilean preschool c…
Treating Parental Burnout: Impact and Particularities of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Approach
Mindfulness- and self-compassion-based programs have been shown to reduce parental stress, and levels of mindfulness and self-compassion have been shown to be negatively related to parental burnout (PB) factors. Based on these results, the present study aimed to test the efficacy of an 8-week mindfulness and compassion-based group approach (MCA) ( n = 29) compared with the existing Parenting in Balance Program (PBP) ( n = 25). Parents were blindl…
The role of cognitive appraisals in parental burnout: A preliminary analysis during the Covid-19 quarantine
Aiming to be perfect parents increases the risk of parental burnout, but emotional competence mitigates it
Disentangling the effects of intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional competence on parental burnout
Emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as the driving forces of parental burnout and its consequences on children: Insights from a network approach
Burnout across boundaries: Can parental burnout directly or indirectly influence work outcomes
Burnout, while historically considered a work-related condition, can be associated with parenting where it can have direct impacts upon parental outcomes and one’s personal resources such as mental health. However, little is known about the domain-incongruent effects of burnout and thus whether parental burnout can manifest within the workplace. The current study uses longitudinal data collected from 499 parents over three intervals across an 8-m…
Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract t…
Does Parenting Perfectionism Ironically Increase Violent Behaviors from Parent towards Children
Background: Past research has shown that perfectionistic strivings (PS) and perfectionistic concerns (PC) in the parenting domain are associated with an increase in parental burnout (PB), and that PB causally increases violence towards one’s offspring. One may therefore wonder whether parenting perfectionism may ironically increase violence towards one’s offspring. Objective: To the best of our knowledge, no study has ever investigated whether pe…
Parental Burnout in the Context of Special Needs, Adoption, and Single Parenthood
Although early work on parental burnout in the 1980s did not link parental burnout to specific parenting situations, the idea that parents affected by specific vulnerability factors were particularly at risk of burnout quickly emerged. Based on the etiological model of parental burnout (i.e., the balance between risks and resources), the objective of this study was to investigate if there were specific vulnerability factors that significantly inc…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
New perspectives on the praise literature: Towards a conceptual model of compliment
Emotion regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic: Risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (Iipb)
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted families' lives around the world. The measures used to contain transmission have led to increased stress and put parents at increased risk for parental burnout (PB). The aim of the current study was to examine the association between COVID-related parental stress and PB, and to test whether emotion regulation (ER) moderated this association. We hypothesised that rumination, which is a generally maladaptive ER st…
Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout: A 40-Country Study
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even in the most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality in parenting when o…
Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies worldwide. The heightened levels of stress that accompanied the crisis were also expected to affect parenting in many families. Since it is known that high levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to a condition that has severe consequences for health and well-being, we examined whether the prevalence of parental burnout in 26 countries (9,923 parents; 75% mothers; mean age 40) increased d…
Are parents of intellectually gifted child(ren) at higher, lower or equal risk for parental burnout
Being a parent can lead to exhaustion when risk factors offset protective factors. Recent research enabled the understanding of parental burnout antecedents among parents of typical and atypical children, but we know few about parental burnout (PB) among parents of intellectually gifted (IG) children. At the same time, several qualitative studies report particularities of being a parent of IG child(ren). In this quantitative study, we explore whe…
Parental Burnout and Its Antecedents among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Families
Parental burnout (PB) results from a chronic imbalance between risks and resources and has severe and extended consequences on the wellbeing of parents and their children. Because same-sex (SS) and different-sex (DS) families face partially different stressors (e.g., SS parents are more stigmatized) but have also partially different resources (e.g., more egalitarian task sharing in SS couples), the current research aimed to investigate whether PB…
Effectiveness of extrinsic emotion regulation strategies in text-based online communication
In daily life, others play a key role in helping regulate an individual's emotions. Such emotion regulation occurs not only in face-to-face communication but also in text-based online communication. To date, much research has examined strategies for alleviating one's own negative emotions (intrinsic emotion regulation) based on the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998, 2015a). However, little is known about the effectiveness of the fu…
The Cult of the Child: A Critical Examination of Its Consequences on Parents, Teachers and Children
The concept of the "cult of the child" highlights a radical change in child representation. Having been neglected and even disrespected for centuries, children are now valued, and their interests are placed above all others. This change in views of children, reflected in changes in laws, institutions and practices, has also spread to two pillars of our democratic societies, the family and the school, with a number of consequences for parents, tea…
Gender Differences in the Nature, Antecedents and Consequences of Parental Burnout
Positive interventions: An emotion regulation perspective
The rapid growth of the literature on positive interventions to increase "happiness" has suggested the need for an overarching conceptual framework to integrate the many and apparently disparate findings. In this review, we used the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) to organize the existing literature on positive interventions and to advance theory by clarifying the mechanisms underlying their effectiveness. We have proposed that …
Explaining the protective effect of trait emotional intelligence regarding occupational stress: Exploration of emotional labour processes
Parenting with a smile: Display rules, regulatory effort, and parental burnout
Positive parenting prescriptions prevailing in Western countries encourage parents to regulate their emotions and, more specifically, to show more positive emotion to their children and control negative emotions while parenting. The beneficial effect of this practice on child development has been much documented, but its possible costs for parents have been much less researched. The current study borrowed the well-known emotional labor framework …
The Cult of the Child: A Critical Examination of Its Consequences on Parents, Teachers and Children
The concept of the "cult of the child" highlights a radical change in child representation. Having been neglected and even disrespected for centuries, children are now valued, and their interests are placed above all others. This change in views of children, reflected in changes in laws, institutions and practices, has also spread to two pillars of our democratic societies, the family and the school, with a number of consequences for parents, tea…
Measuring Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation: The Emotion Regulation Profile-Revised (ERP-R)
Psychologica Belgica is the official journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). BAPS promotes the development of psychological sciences in Belgium, at both fundamental and applied research levels. The journal ensures rigorous peer-review to maintain research integrity.Psychological Belgica makes publications available online as soon as they are finalised. All publications are open access, making research available free …
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: Personality Processes and Individual Differences
Emotional competence (EC) refers to individual differences in the way people identify, understand, express, regulate and use their own emotions and those of others. Research has shown that the level of EC is a significant determinant of crucial aspects of life: mental health and well-being, physical health, interpersonal relationships, and work performance. Although individual differences in EC show stability over time, intra-individual changes a…
An exploration of the moderating effect of trait emotional intelligence on memory and attention in neutral and stressful conditions
Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) refers to individual differences in the experience, perception, regulation, and utilization of emotions. Research has shown that trait EI moderated subjective and endocrine responses to both natural and laboratory stressors. This study explores, the cognitive processes underlying this effect, under the hypothesis that trait EI moderates the impact of stress on memory and/or attention. Results supported the …
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Factor Structure, Evolution, and Predictive Power of Emotional Competencies on Physical and Emotional Health in the Elderly
These results suggest that the development of specific interventions to improve EC may be useful for the elderly
Explaining the protective effect of trait emotional intelligence regarding occupational stress: Exploration of emotional labour processes
An exploration of the moderating effect of trait emotional intelligence on memory and attention in neutral and stressful conditions
Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) refers to individual differences in the experience, perception, regulation, and utilization of emotions. Research has shown that trait EI moderated subjective and endocrine responses to both natural and laboratory stressors. This study explores, the cognitive processes underlying this effect, under the hypothesis that trait EI moderates the impact of stress on memory and/or attention. Results supported the …
Positive emotion regulation and well-being: Comparing the impact of eight savoring and dampening strategies
Increasing emotional competence improves psychological and physical well-being, social relationships, and employability
This study builds on earlier work showing that adult emotional competencies (EC) could be improved through a relatively brief training. In a set of 2 controlled experimental studies, the authors investigated whether developing EC could lead to improved emotional functioning; long-term personality changes; and important positive implications for physical, psychological, social, and work adjustment. Results of Study 1 showed that 18 hr of training …
Measuring Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation: The Emotion Regulation Profile-Revised (ERP-R)
Psychologica Belgica is the official journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). BAPS promotes the development of psychological sciences in Belgium, at both fundamental and applied research levels. The journal ensures rigorous peer-review to maintain research integrity.Psychological Belgica makes publications available online as soon as they are finalised. All publications are open access, making research available free …
The Profile of Emotional Competence (PEC): Development and Validation of a Self-Reported Measure that Fits Dimensions of Emotional Competence Theory
Emotional Competence (EC), which refers to individual differences in the identification, understanding, expression, regulation and use of one's own emotions and those of others, has been found to be an important predictor of individuals' adaptation to their environment. Higher EC is associated with greater happiness, better mental and physical health, more satisfying social and marital relationships and greater occupational success. While it is w…
Factor Structure, Evolution, and Predictive Power of Emotional Competencies on Physical and Emotional Health in the Elderly
These results suggest that the development of specific interventions to improve EC may be useful for the elderly
Integrating emotion regulation and emotional intelligence traditions: A meta-analysis
A nationally representative study of emotional competence and health
Emotional competence (EC; also called "emotional intelligence"), which refers to individual differences in the identification, understanding, expression, regulation, and use of one's emotions and those of others, has been found to be an important predictor of individuals' adaptation to their environment. Higher EC is associated with greater happiness, better mental health, more satisfying social and marital relationships, and greater occupational…
Positive interventions: An emotion regulation perspective
The rapid growth of the literature on positive interventions to increase "happiness" has suggested the need for an overarching conceptual framework to integrate the many and apparently disparate findings. In this review, we used the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) to organize the existing literature on positive interventions and to advance theory by clarifying the mechanisms underlying their effectiveness. We have proposed that …
Developments in Trait Emotional Intelligence Research
Trait emotional intelligence (“trait EI”) concerns our perceptions of our emotional abilities, that is, how good we believe we are in terms of understanding, regulating, and expressing emotions in order to adapt to our environment and maintain well-being. In this article, we present succinct summaries of selected findings from research on (a) the location of trait EI in personality factor space, (b) the biological underpinnings of the construct, …
Exhausted Parents: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Parental Burnout Inventory
Can parents burn out? The aim of this research was to examine the construct validity of the concept of parental burnout and to provide researchers which an instrument to measure it. We conducted two successive questionnaire-based online studies, the first with a community-sample of 379 parents using principal component analyses and the second with a community- sample of 1,723 parents using both principal component analyses and confirmatory factor…
Consequences of parental burnout: Its specific effect on child neglect and violence
A Theoretical and Clinical Framework for Parental Burnout: The Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR2)
Parental burnout is a specific syndrome resulting from enduring exposure to chronic parenting stress. But why do some parents burn out while others, facing the same stressors, do not? The main aim of this paper was to propose a theory of parental burnout capable of predicting (for prevention purposes) who is at risk of burnout, explaining (for intervention purposes) why a particular parent burned out and why at that specific point in time, and pr…
A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)
So far, the conceptualization and measurement of parental burnout have been deduced from those of job burnout. As a result, it is unclear whether current measures of parental burnout constitute the best representation of the parental burnout construct/syndrome: the possibility cannot be excluded that some dimensions ought to be added, which would change the structure and definition of parental burnout. In this study, the conceptualization and mea…
Exhausted Parents: Sociodemographic, Child-Related, Parent-Related, Parenting and Family-Functioning Correlates of Parental Burnout
Le burn-out parental
Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?
Parenting can be wonderful. However, it also can be stressful, and when parents lack the resources needed to handle stressors related to parenting, they may develop parental burnout. This condition is characterized by an overwhelming exhaustion related to one’s parental role, an emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of parental ineffectiveness. Researchers have begun to document the antecedents of parental burnout, but little is k…
How Can Intranasal Oxytocin Research Be Trusted? A Systematic Review of the Interactive Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Psychosocial Outcomes
Over the past two decades, research about the role of oxytocin (OT) in human behavior has grown exponentially. However, a unified theory of OT effects has yet to be developed. Relatedly, growing concerns about the robustness of conclusions drawn in the field have been raised. The current article contributes to this debate by reporting on and discussing key conclusions from a systematic review of published studies addressing the interactive effect…
Development of Trait Emotional Intelligence in Response to Childbirth: A Longitudinal Couple Perspective
The aim of the current paper was to investigate the influence of childbirth on parents' trait emotional intelligence (EI). A three-wave longitudinal research program (during the second trimester of pregnancy, at 6 months postpartum, and at 1 year postpartum) using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model with a hierarchical linear modeling was conducted on 204 parental couples with parental group (i.e., primiparous and multiparous parents) as a ti…
Parental burnout in Lebanon: Validation psychometric properties of the Lebanese Arabic version of the Parental Burnout Assessment
This study- the first study on parental burnout in an Arabic speaking country in the Middle East- aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Lebanese translation of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-Lebanese). The PBA-Lebanese was administered to 200 Lebanese parents (67% mothers). The results showed parental burnout is a valid construct relevant to Lebanese culture. In particular, we replicated the original four-factor structure of t…
The Brazilian–Portuguese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment: Transcultural adaptation and initial validity evidence
This study aimed to examine the validity of the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), the current gold-standard measure of parental burnout (PB). We surveyed parents in Portugal (N = 407) and Brazil (N = 301). We (a) compared the factor structure of the Brazilian-Portuguese version with the original structure of the PBA, (b) tested the adequacy of a second-order factor structure, (c) evaluated invariance across ge…
Parental burnout in Iran: Psychometric properties of the Persian (Farsi) version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)
Parental burnout is a severe exhaustion syndrome resulting from lasting exposure to overwhelming parenting stress. The current gold-standard instrument to evaluate parental burnout is the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), which has recently been used in the International Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB), a global study on the prevalence of parental burnout. The IIPB has stimulated worldwide interest in the construct of parental burnout, …
Validation of the Polish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)
This study examined the factorial structure of the Polish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-PL) and its relation with other variables, previously shown to be antecedents or outcomes of parental burnout. The PBA-PL was administered to a total sample of 2,130 parents along with other instruments depending on the study. Factorial analyses of the PBA-PL supported both the original four-factor model of parental burnout (exhaustion relate…
Parental burnout in Romania: Validity of the Romanian version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA‐RO)
The concept of parental burnout only recently gained the attention of researchers, mainly through the International Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB), a 40-country study of the prevalence of PB around the world. Based on the current gold-standard instrument to evaluate parental burnout, that is the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), the present research investigates the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the PBA (PBA-RO) in…
Psychology (51 works) · Developmental psychology (44 works) · Clinical Psychology (42 works) · Burnout (35 works) · Social Psychology (35 works) · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies (31 works) · Clinical Psychology (21 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works)