The Indirect Effect of the Mindful Parenting of Mothers and Fathers on the Child’s Perceived Well-Being Through the Child’s Attachment to Parents

Medeiros, Catarina; Gouveia, Maria João; Canavarro, Maria Cristina; Moreira, Helena

doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0530-z

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“…women are usually more affectionate and empathetic than men), biological variables (e.g., through evolution, women became biologically better prepared to assume the caregiving role of their offspring), and cultural variables (e.g., in most cultures, women tend to assume the main caregiving role for their children) Medeiros et al 2016). In contrast, men presented higher scores on the non-judgmental acceptance of parenting functioning dimension than women.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Mindful Parentingmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale in a Sample of Portuguese Mothers

Moreira

Canavarro

2016

Mindfulness

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The Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting scale (IM-P) is a self-report questionnaire for measuring mindful parenting. The goal of this study was to explore the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Portuguese version of the IM-P. Three studies were conducted. The first study included 300 mothers of children/adolescents; the second study included 323 mothers of children/adolescents; and the third study included 237 mothers and 142 fathers of children/adolescents. In study 1, the exploratory factor analysis and the reliability analyses resulted in a five-factor structure. Furthermore, the scale scores showed adequate internal consistency and correlated as expected with measures of self-compassion, parenting stress, and perceived stress, evidencing adequate convergent validity. In study 2, the five-factor structure was confirmed through a confirmatory factor analysis. In study 3, the construct validity of the scale (convergent and known-groups) was further explored. Significant correlations were found between the IM-P and measures of self-compassion, parenting styles, and anxious/depressive symptomatology. Mothers reported higher levels of compassion for the child and emotional awareness of the child but lower levels of non-judgmental acceptance of parental functioning than fathers. This study demonstrated that mindful parenting can be measured through the assessment of five dimensions (Listening with Full Attention, Compassion for the Child, Non-judgmental Acceptance of Parental Functioning, Self-regulation in Parenting, and Emotional Awareness of the Child) and confirmed that the Portuguese version is an adequate measure of this construct.

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Section: Gender Differences In Mindful Parentingmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…This study also intended to explore the known-groups validity of the scale by analyzing gender differences in mindful parenting. Based on previous studies (e.g., Medeiros et al 2016;Parent et al 2016), we hypothesized that men would present lower scores on mindful parenting than women.…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale in a Sample of Portuguese Mothers

Moreira

Canavarro

2016

Mindfulness

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“…Having considered that mindfulness influences relational functioning, we turn to the research on whether mindfulness in family members affects the mental and physical health, and reduces symptoms of (psycho)pathology of the individual, starting with parents. There is a large body of recent cross-sectional evidence showing that higher dispositional mindful parenting is associated with lower child (psycho)pathology: with parent-reported adolescents' anxiety and depression [23] with parent-reported child behavior problems [24] with adolescents' risk behaviors substance abuse and sexual engagement [25] with parent-reported youth internalizing and externalizing problems across three developmental stages [26] and youth-reported mindful parenting in fathers…”

Section: Mindfulness Affecting Health Of Family Membersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The mindful family: a systemic approach to mindfulness, relational functioning, and somatic and mental health

Bögels

Emerson

2019

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“…For example, fathers typically respond to youth negative emotion with more nonsupportive strategies that mothers (e.g., Baker, Fenning, & Crnic, 2011;Nelson, O'Brien, Blankson, Calkins, & Keane, 2009), and some data suggest their ES behaviors may have a stronger impact on youth functioning than maternal behaviors (i.e., McElwain et al, 2007;Shortt et al, 2016). With regard to mindful parenting, research suggests that mothers may exhibit higher levels of mindful parenting than fathers (e.g., Gouveia, Carona, Canavarro, & Moreira, 2016;Medeiros, Gouveia, Canavarro, & Moreira, 2016) and that mindfulness interventions may have a larger positive impact on fathers than mothers (Coatsworth et al, 2015;Gouveia et al, 2016). As such, this study will investigate the potentially moderating effect of parent gender on the relations between mindful parenting and emotion socialization strategies.…”

Section: Defining Mindful Parentingmentioning

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Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

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Caregivers play a crucial role in the socialization of youth emotion understanding, competence, and regulation, which are implicated in youth social and emotional health; however, there is less understanding of parental psychosocial or cognitive factors, like mindful parenting, that may be associated with the use of particular emotion socialization (ES) strategies. This study tests a model of the cross-sectional and short-term longitudinal associations between mindful parenting and supportive and nonsupportive ES strategies in a community sample of parents (N = 246; 63.8% mothers) of youth ranging from ages 3-12. Caregivers reported on mindful parenting and ES strategies at two time points 4 months apart. The structural equation model indicated that higher levels of mindful parenting are positively related to supportive ES responses and negatively related to nonsupportive ES responses both concurrently and over time. The longitudinal association between mindful parenting and nonsupportive, but not supportive, ES was marginally larger for fathers as compared to mothers. Given the documented impact of ES strategies on youth emotional and behavioral outcomes and interventions emerging to educate parents about how to provide a healthy emotional atmosphere, incorporating a focus on mindful parenting strategies may provide one pathway to increase supportive responses and decrease nonsupportive ones.

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The Indirect Effect of the Mindful Parenting of Mothers and Fathers on the Child’s Perceived Well-Being Through the Child’s Attachment to Parents

Cited by 90 publications

References 65 publications

Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale in a Sample of Portuguese Mothers

Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale in a Sample of Portuguese Mothers

The mindful family: a systemic approach to mindfulness, relational functioning, and somatic and mental health

Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

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