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Abstract This paper introduces a model of ''mindful parenting'' as a framework mindful parenting for the quality of parent–child relation- ships.
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Facets of this theoretical model have previously been examined and serve as preliminary data providing initial support for the paths in the full model proposed here. Parental dispositional mindfulness has been shown to be associated with higher levels of mindful parenting de Bruin et al. Mindful parenting has been shown to be inversely related to dysfunctional parenting styles de Bruin et al. Higher levels of parent dispositional mindfulness have also been shown to be indirectly related to lower levels of youth internalizing and externalizing problems through higher levels of positive parenting and parental well-being Parent et al.

Within the context of prevention or intervention, programs targeting mindful parenting have been shown to be related to improvements in mindful parenting, the parent-youth relationship, parenting practices, and youth psychosocial outcomes e. Taken together, the preliminary findings are promising, but remain limited, since they do not test the relations in the context of the full model proposed here. The current study represents an important extension of the literature by examining a model by which a positive parental characteristic, mindfulness, is associated with youth problem behaviors within a comprehensive model.

Of importance, building on Darling and Steinberg's unheeded call over 20 years ago for research on parenting across developmental stages, we examine our model in families with children at different developmental stages: Although specific socialization goals e. Furthermore, we would propose that both parent dispositional mindfulness and mindful parenting would be important across developmental stages, with implications for effective parenting and youth problem behaviors.

As a consequence, we hypothesized that similar associations between variables in our model would be universal i. The hypothesized model, including directions of the proposed effects, is depicted in Figure 1. Beyond direct effects, we hypothesized that higher levels of parent dispositional mindfulness would be indirectly related to parenting practices through mindful parenting and to lower levels of internalizing and externalizing problems through both mindful parenting and parenting practices.

Parents were recruited online through Amazon's Mechanical Turk MTurk as part of a larger study on the assessment of parenting. Parents responded to a study on parenting that was listed separately for three age groups to ensure roughly equal sample sizes in these three child age ranges: As MTurk is a relatively new recruitment procedure, we describe it in detail in a subsequent section.

Data from three samples with a total of parents of children between the ages of 3 and 17 were included in the current study. Sample demographics by age of youth young childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence are presented in Table 1.

There are several advantages for the use of crowdsourcing methods in clinical and developmental research. First, relatively large samples sizes can be collected quickly e. Second, a diverse range of participants e.

A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent–Child Relationships and Prevention Research

Third, prior research has convincingly demonstrated that data obtained via crowdsourcing methods are as reliable as those obtained via more traditional data collection methods e. Fourth, previous work has also shown that participation and data quality are unaffected by compensation rate or task length Buhrmester et al. Parents were consented online before beginning the survey in accordance with the approved IBR procedures. For families with multiple children in the target age range, one child was randomly selected through a computer algorithm and measures were asked in reference to parenting specific to this child and child's behavior.

Participants were recruited from MTurk under the restriction that they were U. Ten attention check items were placed throughout the online survey. Parents responded to demographic questions about themselves e. Participants indicated how frequently they had the experience described in each statement e. Statements were scored on a Likert scale ranging from 1 almost always to 6 almost never. Higher scores reflect higher levels of mindfulness. Mean levels of the MAAS in the current sample were comparable to community samples without prior mindfulness training e. The alpha coefficient averaged across all three current samples was.

Parents responded to each item on a 5-point Likert rating scale with higher scores reflecting higher levels of mindful parenting. Previous studies have demonstrated the concurrent and discriminant validity of the IMPS e. Mean levels of the IMPS in the current sample were comparable to the community sample from the original validation sample Duncan, Reliability for this scale averaged across the three samples in the current study was.

MAPS items were selected and adapted from several well-established parenting scales: The item positive parenting subscale included items representing expressions of warmth and affection e. The 7-item negative parenting subscale included items representing reactive e.

A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent–Child Relationships and Prevention Research

Furthermore, validity tests showed large correlations with corresponding scales of the CBCL and YSR as well as with diagnoses obtained from a structured diagnostic interview Chorpita et al. Mean levels of internalizing and externalizing problem in the current study were lower than those previously reported for the BPC in a sample of children diagnosed with an anxiety, depressive, or disruptive behavior disorder Chorpita et al. The alpha coefficients for internalizing and externalizing problems averaged across the three samples for the current study were. The effect of categorical e.

If significant associations emerged between demographic variables and primary model variables, those demographic variables were controlled for in primary analyses. Path analysis to test the hypothesized structural model was conducted with Mplus 6. To account for skewed data, maximum likelihood estimation with robust standard errors MLR was used.

The following fit statistics were employed to evaluate model fit: A series of model comparisons were conducted with the goal of moving to more parsimonious models. The use of the MLR estimator required the use of a scaled chi-square difference test Satorra, for making key comparisons among nested models.

Although not included in the proposed conceptual model presented in Figure 1 , the effects of control variables e. If paths in the structural model remained significant with the inclusion of these covariates, it was concluded that the control variables did not influence the relationships among variables in the model. Additionally, to test the significance of the indirect effect, the Model Indirect command in Mplus was utilized to calculate a standardized indirect effect parameter and biased-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals.

Preliminary analyses combined all three samples in order to limit the number of analyses conducted. All bivariate correlations among study variables were significant and in the expected directions see Table 2. Prior to analyses, three demographic variables were dichotomized based on sample size in groups and inspection of the means.

Race was dichotomized to White 1 or Person of Color 2 , marital status was dichotomized to single 1 or in a relationship 2 , and parent education was dichotomized to some college or less 1 or college degree or more 2.

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None of the key study variables significantly differed by parent race, family income, or youth gender. Therefore these variables were not controlled for in the primary analyses. Thus, for the primary analyses, parent age, marital status, parent education level, and parent gender served as covariates. The multiple-group function in Mplus was used to determine model fit across all three samples, but paths in the model were freely estimated by youth developmental stage. Next, nested model comparisons were tested using a series of scaled chi-square difference tests.

The first nested model compared the above model with one that removed direct paths from parent dispositional mindfulness to positive and negative parenting Model 2. The next nested model comparison evaluated Model 1 against an alternative model that removed direct paths from parent dispositional mindfulness to youth internalizing and externalizing problems but retained the paths from parent dispositional mindfulness to positive and negative parenting Model 3.

Next, the nested model compared Model 1 with one that removed direct paths from parent dispositional mindfulness to youth internalizing and externalizing problems and from parent mindfulness to positive and negative parenting. Thus, Model 1 was adopted based on overall fit to the data and theoretical interpretability. The standardized estimates of direct and indirect effects are presented in Table 3 along with bias-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals for all effects in the model results for each of the three samples.

Figure 2 displays significant standardized estimates for the young childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence samples, respectively. Final structural model with significant standardized estimates displayed for each sample. MIMIC models tested the demographic effects of parent gender, parent age, parent marital status, and parent education level on the associations in Model 1 for each age group.

All the major constructs of Model 1 were regressed on the control variables separately. The direct paths from parent dispositional mindfulness to youth internalizing and externalizing problems were reduced to marginal significance due to increased standard errors in many of the MIMIC models but had standardized estimates close to original values.

Overall, all paths in the structural model across all three samples were largely unaffected by the inclusion of these control variables; thus, it was concluded that the control variables did not influence the original relationships among variables in the model. The statistically significant standardized estimates of pathways in the model Figure 2 were generally consistent across all three samples.

Direct paths will be reviewed first. As predicted, higher levels of parent dispositional mindfulness were associated with higher levels of mindful parenting. Next, consistent with hypotheses, higher levels of mindful parenting were related to higher levels of positive parenting practices and lower levels of negative parenting practices.

Contrary to hypotheses, higher levels of positive parenting were not inversely related to internalizing problems of middle childhood or adolescent youth and were not associated with youth externalizing problems in any of the three samples. As hypothesized, higher levels of negative parenting practices were related to higher levels of youth internalizing and externalizing problems in all three samples.

Consistent with hypotheses, direct effects emerged for the path between parent mindfulness and negative parenting, youth internalizing, and youth externalizing problems, whereby higher levels of parent mindfulness were associated with lower levels of negative parenting, youth internalizing, and youth externalizing problems. Yet, contrary to hypotheses, no direct effect emerged between parent mindfulness and positive parenting nor between mindful parenting and either youth internalizing or externalizing problems.

In regard to indirect effects, all findings were consistent across the three samples and in support of hypotheses see Table 3 for the total indirect effects. Parent dispositional mindfulness was indirectly related to positive and negative parenting practices through mindful parenting. Furthermore, parent dispositional mindfulness was indirectly related to youth internalizing and externalizing problems through negative parenting practices and mindful parenting.

All total indirect effects and specific indirect effects were statistically significant. The purpose of the current study was to propose and test a model of how one characteristic of parents — mindfulness — is associated with youth psychopathology through mindful parenting and parenting practices. Of importance, in response to a call for research by Darling and Steinberg over 20 years ago, we examined the model in families with children in three developmental stages to determine if the model was universal or restricted to a particular stage of development.


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Findings indicated that, regardless of the developmental stage of the youth, parent dispositional mindfulness was associated with mindful parenting, which, in turn, was linked to positive and negative parenting practices. In the final link in the model, negative parenting practices were related to youth internalizing and externalizing problems.

The consistency of the findings for the proposed model across developmental stages ranging in age from 3 to 17 provides substantial support for the roles of parental dispositional mindfulness, mindful parenting, and negative parenting in youth internalizing and externalizing problems. Not only were there significant direct links between each adjacent pair of these constructs as proposed in our model but the effect size of the indirect effect from parental dispositional mindfulness to both types of child problem behavior was substantial at each developmental stage.

The findings suggest that mindfulness, mindful parenting, and negative parenting are similarly associated with child psychopathology across ages. As we examined children in three different age groups cross-sectionally, it is not possible to address causality from our data. Nevertheless, our findings are among the first to speak to the universal relationship of parental mindfulness to child problem behaviors across youth developmental stages and to begin to elucidate the potential mechanisms that may account for this relationship.

As we noted earlier, the individual links in our model have been demonstrated in previous research. However, the current study is the first to delineate and test a comprehensive model. Turning to individual pathways in the model, not surprisingly, the dispositional capacity to maintain present-moment focus and attention i.

In turn, mindful parenting is associated with lower levels of coercive and ineffective discipline and higher levels of warmth and reinforcement. The former, but not the latter, is associated in the expected direction with both internalizing and externalizing problems of youth. Parent mindfulness was directly associated with negative parenting practices and directly associated with youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms. It is likely that present-moment awareness is related to other intermediate variables that influence negative parenting and child psychopathology but that were not assessed in the current model.