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Parental Efficacy Moderates the Association Between Empathy and Burden Among Parents of Children Admitted to a Psychiatric Ward |
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| Authors: | Ayala Ben-Pazi Gil Goldzweig Gerdina Hendrika Maria Pijnenborg David Roe Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Eitanim Psychiatric Center, Jerusalem, Israel;2. School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel;3. Department of Psychotic Disorders, GGZ Drenthe Mental Health Institute, Assen, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;4. Department of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Department of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;5. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel |
| Abstract: | Empathy is considered a positive aspect of caregiving, although in certain circumstances, being empathic might increase the burden of caregivers. The current study assessed the associations between empathy, parental efficacy, and family burden among parents of children who were hospitalized in a psychiatric unit. Specifically, we examined whether the association between empathy and family burden was moderated by the parents’ sense of self-efficacy. Seventy parents of children with psychiatric disorders, hospitalized in an inpatient psychiatric unit, filled out questionnaires of empathy, parental efficacy, and family burden. Results supported a moderating role of parental efficacy between empathy and family burden (interaction effect: β = −1.72, p = .0406). Specifically, empathy was positively related to family burden among parents with low self-efficacy (conditional effect = 0.70, p = .032) and negatively related to family burden among parents with high self-efficacy (conditional effect = −0.39, p = N.S). Implications for practice include the importance of self-efficacy and address the possible negative implications of empathy among parents of children treated in a psychiatric hospital. |
| Keywords: | Parents Self-efficacy Empathy Family burden empatía padres eficacia trastornos psiquiátricos 移情 父母 效能 精神病 |