“My friends are better parents than me”: Comparison and shaming, social support, and parental burnout.

= 7.93 years). Our results indicated that perceived social support was negatively correlated with parental burnout, whereas personal social comparison and critical comparison and shaming by family members were positively correlated with parental burnout, with similar patterns observed across both countries. We also tested an exploratory moderation model and found that, in the Vietnamese sample, but not the U.K. sample, the protective effect of perceived social support was stronger among parents with higher levels of personal social comparison. These findings underscore the importance of incorporating group-dynamic factors (e.g., perceived social support and comparison) into prevention and intervention programs for parental burnout and offer new directions for future research in this field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).