%0 Journal Article %T Do Cognitive Appraisals Explain the High Reliability of the Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR2)? %A Aline Woine %A Isabelle Roskam %A Mo？ra Mikolajczak %J Psychology %P 52-68 %@ 2152-7199 %D 2023 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/psych.2023.141004 %X Background: The etiological model of parental burnout, that is, the Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR²) (Mikolajczak & Roskam, 2018), posits that the syndrome results from a chronic imbalance between parental stress-aggravating and parental stress-relieving factors. Empirical evidence which has accumulated thus far suggests further investigating the internal structure of BR². Goals: The present study examines 1) the reliability indexes of the BR² instrument and 2) further investigates whether the instrument would host a general latent factor which would capture the parent’s cognitive appraisals. Method: A sample of 1473 parents took part in the study. Two factor models were tested: a unidimensional model (with the subjective perception as the unique latent structure to BR² items) and a bifactor model composed of one general latent factor (i.e., the parent’s subjective perception) and several specific latent factors which correspond to the different factors measured in BR² (e.g., emotional competence, the relationship between the parent and the child, co-parenting, etc.). Results: Findings showed that the unidimensional model poorly fitted the data and that the bifactor model failed to explain the dataset (no convergence achieved). Conclusion: Parents’ answers to BR² are not underlain by a common and general tendency to interpret their parenting situation in either a general positive or a general negative way. %K Unidimensional Model %K Bifactor Model %K Second-Order Model %K Cronbach’s Alpha %K McDonald’s Omega %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=122785