Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Current Psychology, cilt.45, sa.8, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
Despite the growing body of literature, no comprehensive bibliometric analysis has systematically mapped the evolution and structure of parental burnout research. This study analyzes publication trends, conceptual structure, intellectual foundations, and social networks in parental burnout research. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 307 research articles retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (1989–2025). Data were analyzed in R using the Bibliometrix package, with RStudio as the integrated development environment and VOSviewer for visualization, employing performance analysis and science mapping techniques, including co-citation, co-authorship, and authors’ keyword co-occurrence analyses. The results indicate a marked growth in parental burnout research since the mid-to-late 2010s, with an annual growth rate of 12.82%, reflecting the field’s rapid expansion following conceptual clarification and measurement consolidation. Isabelle Roskam and Moïra Mikolajczak emerged as the most influential authors. Thematic analyses identified a multidimensional research landscape encompassing core topics such as parental burnout, parenting stress, mental health, and family functioning, alongside context-specific themes including COVID-19, child abuse and neglect, autism, coparenting, social support, emotion regulation, perfectionism, resilience, and work–family conflict. Co-authorship network analysis demonstrated global collaboration, with Belgium, the USA, China, Poland, Taiwan, Turkey and France as the most active contributors. The results of the present study indicate a shift toward a multilevel perspective integrating individual vulnerabilities, relational dynamics, parenting practices, and broader social and contextual conditions. By clarifying the structure and trajectory of the literature, this study provides a systematic, data-driven foundation for future research on parental burnout.