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- Title
Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations.
- Authors
McKee, Laura G.; Parent, Justin; Zachary, Chloe R.; Forehand, Rex
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of parents; PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; COGNITION; EMOTIONS in adolescence; FATHERHOOD; LONGITUDINAL method; MENTAL health; MOTHERHOOD; PARENTING; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIAL support; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; PARENT attitudes; CROSS-sectional method; MINDFULNESS
- Publication
Family Process, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 3, p752
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12329