Family relations and interactions: Parental burnout
The 5-item Brief Parental Burnout scale (BPBs) is applied to measure the risk of parental burnout. Parents are asked to rate the frequency of feelings related to burn-out (e.g., “I’m so tired out by my role as a parent that sleeping doesn’t seem like enough.“) on a 3-point response scale reaching from daily to more seldom/never. The BPBs reports an internal consistency of Cronbach’s α = .81 to .84 [