Mindfulness In Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ): Development and Validation of a Measure of Mindful Parenting

Abstract

First, I need to thank my dissertation chair, Dr. David Reitman, for his commitment and support during this challenging research endeavor. Thank you for your time, insight, and belief in me as I worked through this multiphase project. I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Ryan Black and Dr. Barry Nierenberg, for their guidance. Dr. Black, your enthusiasm for measure development is contagious, and I sincerely appreciate all the time you spent with me trying out new programs and running syntax. Aside from my dissertation committee, I would like to thank my family for their unwavering support. Kelly-although we are many states away, I am grateful that we were able to work through the stages of our dissertations simultaneously and experience the challenge together. Last but not least, I want to thank my husband, Dr. Kevin McCaffrey, for his incredible patience, encouragement, love and support. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES .

Mindful Parenting: Study on Parents of Preschool Children

“…According to these data, the majority of respondents are mothers and generally both mothers and fathers is in state of mindful parenting. Furthermore, the domination of 'high' category of mindful parenting indicating that parents in Bandung are able to demonstrate attitude of being in the moment with their children as well as possess high selfefficacy as one of components in mindful parenting based on previous studies found in [8]. These results also suggest that since woman are biologically and evolutionarily better prepared than men in the role of child rearing, they tend to be more willing to adopt and implement warmth, compassion, and mindful attitudes towards their children [9].…”

“…The results are expected to illustrate whether parents who have pre-school children in Bandung are in the state of mindful parenting or not. Furthermore, this study used Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ), compiled by McCaffrey, Reitman and Black [8]. They tested 2 dimensions, namely mindful discipline and being in the moment with child.…”

Protocol for digital intervention for effective health promotion of small children—A cluster randomized trial

“…parenting and child care, relationships, mental health and coping, positive thinking and mindful parenting. The resource cards also include explanations about the available resources and emphasize mindfulness in parenting (Duncan et al., ; Kabat‐Zinn & Kabat‐Zinn, ; McCaffrey et al., ). The family is instructed to choose resource cards and place them in a suitable train car according to their perceptions.…”

“…For each item, the parents respond using a four‐point Likert scale. The scale has been validated among American parents with children of an average age of 6.1 years (McCaffrey et al., ). An official translation into Finnish was conducted using the ISPOR protocol (Wild et al., ).…”

“…The model specifies that instead of attempting to change behaviour directly, the intervention should attempt to change the mediators that are evidenced to be the determinants of desirable behaviours (Baranowski et al, 1997; Thompson et al, 2010). In the WellWe intervention, the mediator affecting healthy behaviours is self-efficacy for health behaviours (Bohman et al, 2016) and mediator affecting mindfulness in the parent-child relationship is mindful parenting (McCaffrey, Reitman, & Black, 2017). The family-centred approach offers a framework for the intervention (Dalvand et al, 2014 The Medical Research Council's framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions (Craig et al, 2013) was adapted for our purposes when developing and piloting the WellWe intervention.…”