Mindfulness in Parenting and Coparenting

Parent, Justin; McKee, Laura G.; Anton, Margret; Gonzalez, Michelle; Jones, Deborah J.; Forehand, Rex

doi:10.1007/s12671-015-0485-5

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Mindfulness in Parenting and Coparenting

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Parent, Justin, McKee, Laura G., Anton, Margret, Gonzalez, Michelle, Jones, Deborah J., Forehand, Rex·2016·Mindfulness

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Mindfulness has been established as a critical psychosocial variable for the well-being of individuals; however, less is understood regarding the role of mindfulness within the family context of parents, coparents, and children. This study tested a model examining the process by which parent dispositional mindfulness relates to parenting and coparenting relationship quality through mindful parenting and coparenting. Participants were 485 parents (59.2% mothers) from three community samples of families with youth across three developmental stages: young childhood (3 - 7 yrs.; n = 164), middle childhood (8 - 12 yrs.; n = 161), and adolescence (13 - 17 yrs.; n = 160). Path analysis using maximum likelihood estimation was employed to test primary hypotheses. The proposed model demonstrated excellent fit. Findings across all three youth development stages indicated both direct effects or parent dispositional mindfulness, as well as indirect effects through mindful parenting and mindful coparenting, with parenting and coparenting relationship quality. Implications for intervention and prevention efforts are discussed.

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Parents who are more mindful have better coparenting and more satisfied relationships, which is indirectly related to more-positive adolescent perceptions of parenting and reduced internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
“parents who are themselves more mindful have better coparenting, as well as more satisfied relationships, which is then indirectly related to more-positive adolescent perceptions of parenting as well as reduced internalizing and externalizing behaviors (Parent et al. 2014; Parent et al. 2016; Parent et al. 2016).”
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The Results and Discussion report that more mindful parents had higher coparenting relationship quality, including greater agreement, support, and closeness. The paper does not report that they had more satisfied relationships or test an indirect link from those relationships to adolescents’ perceptions of parenting or to internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Its measured parenting outcomes were parents’ positive and negative parenting practices. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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Authors: Parent, J., McKee, L. G., Anton, M., Gonzalez, M., Jones, D. J., & Forehand, R.
Affiliations: University of Vermont (US)
University of Georgia (US)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author: Parent, Justin
ORCID: Parent, Justin
McKee, Laura G.
Jones, Deborah J.
Forehand, Rex
Venue: Mindfulness
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2016-01-08
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Pages: 504-513
ISSN: 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
1868-8535
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-015-0485-5
PMC: PMC4830503
OpenAlex: W2227512868
Cited by: 72
References: 64
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3
FWCI: 8.03
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
www.springer.com/tdm (vor)
Locations: Mindfulness (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
UNC Libraries
Funders: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (F31HD082858)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords: parenting, co-parenting, mindful parenting, family well-being, adolescents

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