Cited by 341Mindfulness and Compassion InterventionsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentFamily Dynamics and Relationships

Changing parent's mindfulness, child management skills and relationship quality with their youth: Results from a randomized pilot intervention trial

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Coatsworth, J. Douglas, Duncan, Larissa G., Greenberg, Mark T., Nix, Robert L.·2010·Journal of Child and Family Studies

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We evaluated the efficacy of a mindful parenting program for changing parents' mindfulness, child management practices, and relationships with their early adolescent youth and tested whether changes in parents' mindfulness mediated changes in other domains. We conducted a pilot randomized trial with 65 families and tested an adapted version of the Strengthening Families Program: For Parent and Youth 10-14 that infused mindfulness principles and practices against the original program and a delayed intervention control group. Results of pre-post analyses of mother and youth-report data showed that the mindful parenting program generally demonstrated comparable effects to the original program on measures of child management practices and stronger effects on measures of mindful parenting and parent-youth relationship qualities. Moreover, mediation analyses indicated that the mindful parenting program operated indirectly on the quality of parent-youth relationships through changes in mindful parenting. Overall, the findings suggest that infusing mindful parenting activities into existing empirically validated parenting programs can enhance their effects on family risk and protection during the transition to adolescence.

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  • Three studies included multiple respondents for child emotional and behavioural adjustment, parenting skills, and parent mindfulness outcomes.

    “Three studies included multiple respondents for child emotional and behavioural adjustment, parenting skills, and parent mindfulness outcomes, including mother, father and/or child reports (Coatsworth 2010; Coatsworth 2015; Gewirtz 2018).”

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    The Method’s Outcome Measures section reports both mother and youth ratings of child-management practices and affective behavior in their relationship. It says mothers alone completed the mindful-parenting scale, however, and does not identify a separate measure of child emotional and behavioural adjustment. The Discussion also specifies that this study collected reports from mothers and youths, not fathers. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Four studies compared an eligible intervention group with two eligible control groups.

    “In four studies, an eligible intervention group was compared to two eligible control groups (Coatsworth 2010; Coatsworth 2015; Dawe 2007; Whittingham 2013).”

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  1. Molgaard VK Spoth RL Redmond C 2000 Competency training: The strengthening families program for youth 10–14. Bulletin Washington, DC US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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Authors
Coatsworth, J. D., Duncan, L. G., Greenberg, M. T., & Nix, R. L.
Affiliations
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Coatsworth, J. Douglas
Venue
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Published
2009-09-16
Volume
19
Issue
2
Pages
203-217
ISSN
  • 1062-1024 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2843
OpenAlex
W2160057808
Cited by
341
References
79
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA026217)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (L60 MD003696)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (K01AT005270)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords
mindful parenting, mindfulness, Strengthening Families Program, parent training, early adolescence, transition to adolescence, mediation

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