Relationship between Mother’s Parenting Anxiety and Parental Burnout: The Mediating Effect of Self-Compassion and the Moderated Mediating Effect of Social Support

This study examined the moderated mediating effects of social support on the relationship of parenting anxiety, self-compassion, and parental burnout among mothers of children in infancy. The analysis was carried out according to the moderated mediation effect verification procedure, and models 4 and 14 of PROCESS Macro were used. The results showed that the relationship between a mother’s parenting anxiety and parental burnout is partially mediated by self-compassion. Second, the social support had a moderated mediating effect in the process of mother’s parenting anxiety affecting parental burnout through self-compassion. When the mother’s social support levels is low and the level of self-compassion is low, parental burnout intensifies. but when When the mother’s social support levels is high, even if the level of self-compassion is low, it does not lead to parental burnout.