Emotional Intelligence Attenuates the Harmful Effects of Parental Perfectionism and Emotional Suppression on Parental Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model

This study contributes to research on the parenting perfectionism-parental burnout relationship. The results support a regression-based moderated mediation model examining the role of emotional intelligence in buffering both the direct and indirect (through parental emotional suppression) effects of perfectionistic concerns on parental burnout in a sample of 439 Polish parents.