Mindful Parenting: Study on Parents of Preschool Children

Abstract

Parenting needs a calm and aware state regarding what parents might be facing at that moment. Also, it requires parents to be mindful; thus, they are more aware of their emotions, accept situation, and improve quality of their interaction. This is called mindful parenting. This type of parenting becomes more understood by parents today. More evidence supports mindfulness in parenting, this study analysed and described mindful parenting of pre-schoolers' parents in Bandung City, Indonesia. The total of 163 parents completed selfreported questionnaires using Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire developed by McCaffrey, Reitman, and Black [1]. The demographic data, including age, sex, education background, monthly income, and number of children were reported by respondents. Sample of this research was preschools in centre region of Bandung. The range of mindful parenting was divided into "high" and "low". Most of parents with preschool children had high level of mindful parenting. Total of 12 fathers had high mindfulness in parenting and 123 mothers were also categorized high on mindful parenting. Previous research found that parents' age becomes one of several factors affecting mindfulness, particularly in period of late adulthood. This result was in contrast with data which found that higher score of mindful parenting was distributed in all range of ages. In line with age, education was found as one contributing factor in mindful parenting. According to this result, high score of mindfulness in parenting was spread in all range of parents' education, starting from elementary school to master's degree.

Gambaran Hubungan Antara Usia Dan Tingkat Pendidikan Ibu Dengan Mindful Parenting

“…Dimana semakin tua usia orang tua maka semakin mindful parenting. Begitu juga yang diungkap oleh Utami, et al (2019), bahwa tinggi rendahnya skor dari mindfull parenting dipengaruhi oleh latar belakang pendidikan orang tua, dimana pendidikan sekolah menengah memiliki skor terendah dan tingkat Pendidikan magister mendapat skor mindfull parenting yang tinggi. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa tingkat pendidikan memiliki pengaruh pada penerapan mindful parenting.…”

Adaptation of Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ) for parents of children aged 2-12 years

“…The CFA on this scale showed a good fit model in the one-factor and two-factor models, without including items 4, 5, 18, and 19 as they had a significant error variance, meaning the number of items tested The MIPQ scale has never been tested psychometrically in diverse populations of Indonesia. However, approaches to and research on mindful parenting are starting to be widely conducted in the country, especially on parents with pre-school and school-age children (Dahlan, 2016;Gani & Kumalasari, 2019;Rosyada & Ramadhianti, 2019;Saraswati & Febriani, 2018;Sofyan, 2019;Utami et al, 2020;Zaenab & Indryanai, 2020). This research aims to establish whether the Indonesian version of the MIPQ (MIPQ-Ind) displays good validity after being used in parents of children aged 2-12 years in Indonesia.…”