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- Title
Mindfulness as a Potential Moderator Between Child Behavior Problems and Maternal Well-Being.
- Authors
Griffith, Gemma M.; Saville, Christopher W. N.; Halstead, Elizabeth J.; Hastings, Richard P.
- Abstract
Mindfulness-based programs can help lower psychological distress among parents of children with developmental disabilities. However, less is known about the functions of mindfulness in relation to parental outcomes. In a cross-sectional survey, mothers of children with developmental disabilities (N = 313) reported on their child's behavior problems, trait mindfulness, mindful parenting, and a range of outcomes (anxiety and depression symptoms, parenting stress, family satisfaction, and positive gain). Neither trait mindfulness or mindful parenting acted as moderators between child behavior problems and outcome variables, although both had main effect (compensatory) associations with parent outcomes. Benefits of mindfulness-based programs may be general rather than specifically in the context of high child behavior problems, given the lack of evidence for the moderating function of mindfulness.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR disorders in children; CHILDREN with developmental disabilities; WELL-being; MINDFULNESS-based cognitive therapy; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
- Publication
American Journal on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2023, Vol 128, Issue 6, p411
- ISSN
1944-7515
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1352/1944-7558-128.6.411