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Irrational attitudes in thinking and maternal emotional burnout. Education & Pedagogy Journal. 2024;1(9):48-61. DOI:

The article describes the relationship between irrational attitudes in thinking and indicators of emotional burnout in mothers. The importance of the study arises from the need to provide psychological help to mothers facing the problem of parental burnout, the inability to fulfill their parental responsibilities in the upbringing and development of children, and coping with stressful situations associated with the peculiarities of irrational attitudes in thinking. The lack of a study on how mothers’ emotional burnout is related to their irrational thinking attitudes was a problematic area of the study. The survey results of 108 mothers aged 20 to 36 raising children under seven are presented. The study used the following methods: A test for diagnosing irrational attitudes by A. llis, a Test for parental burnout by I.N. Efimova, and a Scale of subjective well-being by A. Perue-Badu, adapted by M.V. Sokolova). Associations were found between mothers’ emotional burnout indicators and irrational attitudes, such as ‘catastrophizing,’ ‘commitment to others,’ ‘commitment to oneself,’ ‘frustration intolerance,’ and ‘judgmental attitude.’ The most significant associations for irrational attitudes are ‘frustration intolerance’ and ‘judgmental attitude.’ They reflect the mothers’ intolerance of various frustrating situations and the tendency to evaluate their personalities based on their traits or actions. In practical terms, the study’s results can be used in a psychologist’s counseling, corrective, and preventive work, especially in preventing maternal burnout syndrome.

Keywords: motherhood, emotional burnout, maternal burnout, irrational thinking, cognitive psychotherapy