Abstract
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to have positive effects on children’s emotional functioning, and adaptive parenting practices are associated with fewer emotional problems. However, the association between mindful parenting and adolescent emotional problems has not been studied much. In the current study, the indirect path from mindful parenting to adolescent emotional problems was examined, with maternal warmth and adolescent dispositional mindfulness as potential mediators. A sample of 168 mother–child dyads participated in this study. A serial indirect effects model showed mother’s mindful parenting could decrease adolescent emotional problems through adolescent’s perceived maternal warmth and their dispositional mindfulness. Findings of this study imply that intervention in mindful parenting may have benefits for adolescents’ emotional problems through enhancing maternal warmth and children’s trait mindfulness.
Highlights
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to be beneficial in various kinds of psychopathology, such as anxiety and depression (Hofmann et al, 2010), pain (Song et al, 2014; Bawa et al, 2015), substance abuse (Tang et al, 2015), and various physical illnesses (Aucoin et al, 2014)
Given the paucity of studies explaining how mindful parenting is linked to better adjusted children’s outcomes, the current study aims to bridge this gap by bringing in positive parenting practice and children’s dispositional mindfulness in explaining the mechanism linking mindful parenting to children’s emotional problems
This study aimed to explore the association between mindful parenting and emotional problems in adolescents, and the potential indirect effect pathway
Summary
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to be beneficial in various kinds of psychopathology, such as anxiety and depression (Hofmann et al, 2010), pain (Song et al, 2014; Bawa et al, 2015), substance abuse (Tang et al, 2015), and various physical illnesses (Aucoin et al, 2014). Adolescence is a transitional period in life, accompanied by cognitive, physiological, and emotional changes (e.g., Cameron, 2004). Together with these changes, emotional problems are highly prevalent among adolescents, which significantly interfere with their daily functioning (e.g., Van Oort et al, 2009; Salk et al, 2016). Previous studies have examined the association between traditional parenting practices (such as parental control, rejection, and warmth) and emotional problems (for a meta-analysis concerning depression, see McLeod et al, 2007a; regarding anxiety, see McLeod et al, 2007b), but little is known about the role of mindful parenting. The aim of the current study is to gain more insight into the association between mindful parenting and adolescents’ emotional problems
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