Parent Mindfulness and Child Outcome: The Roles of Parent Depressive Symptoms and Parenting
Mindfulness
Short Title:
Parent Mindfulness and Child Outcome
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2010/12//
Pages:
254 - 264
Sources ID:
68071
Collection:
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Depression
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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The purpose of this study was to examine pathways in a model which proposed associations among parent mindfulness, parent depressive symptoms, two types of parenting, and child problem behavior. Participants' data were from the baseline assessment of a NIMH-sponsored family-group cognitive-behavioral intervention program for the prevention of child and adolescent depression (Compas et al., 2009). Participants consisted of 145 mothers and 17 fathers (mean age = 41.89 yrs, SD = 7.73) with a history of depression and 211 children (106 males) (mean age = 11.49 yrs, SD = 2.00). Analyses showed that (a) positive parenting appears to play a significant role in helping explain how parent depressive symptoms relate to child externalizing problems and (b) mindfulness is related to child internalizing and externalizing problems; however, the intervening constructs examined did not appear to help explain the mindfulness-child problem behavior associations. Suggestions for future research on parent mindfulness and child problem outcome are described.