Selected articles
Each article in this selection contributes to a better understanding of parenting, child development, and family mental health, developed in line with the standards of scientific research and enriched by international collaborations. The publications presented here provide an overview of the most representative work from my career and the main research areas that structure it.
Bidirectional and transactional effects between parental burnout and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
Woine, A., Dardier, V., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2025). Bidirectional and transactional effects between parental burnout and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology, 10.1037/fam0001414
Unveiling the Uniqueness of Parental Burnout and Parenthood Regret: Impact on Parents and Children.
Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Piotrowski, K. (2025). Unveiling the Uniqueness of Parental Burnout and Parenthood Regret: Impact on Parents and Children. Clinical Psychological Science, 0(0).
Three reasons why parental burnout is more prevalent in individualistic countries: a mediation study in 36 countries.
Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arena, A. F., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-Matera, A., Budak, A. M., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B. B., Dorard, G., Dos Santos Elias, L. C., Dunsmuir, S., Egorova, N., Favez, N., … Mikolajczak, M. (2024). Three reasons why parental burnout is more prevalent in individualistic countries: a mediation study in 36 countries. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 59(4), 681–694.
Optimizing the Assessment of Parental Burnout: A Multi-informant and Multimethod Approach to Determine Cutoffs for the Parental Burnout Inventory and the Parental Burnout Assessment.
Brianda, M. E., Mikolajczak, M., Bader, M., Bon, S., Déprez, A., Favez, N., Holstein, L., Le Vigouroux, S., Lebert-Charron, A., Sánchez-Rodríguez, R., Séjourné, N., Wendland, J., & Roskam, I. (2023). Optimizing the Assessment of Parental Burnout: A Multi-informant and Multimethod Approach to Determine Cutoffs for the Parental Burnout Inventory and the Parental Burnout Assessment. Assessment, 30(7), 2234-2246.
15 Years of Parental Burnout Research: Systematic Review and Agenda.
Mikolajczak, M., Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., & Roskam, I. (2023). 15 Years of Parental Burnout Research: Systematic Review and Agenda. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(4), 276-283.
Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study.
Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Artavia, M., Avalosse, H., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Bahati, C., Barham, E. J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. -E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Bhen, B. B., Dorard, G.,… Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study. Affective Science, 2, 58-79