Mindful parenting: future directions and challenges

Cowling, Carly; Gordon, William Van

doi:10.1080/24721735.2021.1961114

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“…Alternatively, it could be that those who are less mindful and lack confidence in their parenting are also more likely to experience stress when facing difficult times. Unfortunately, while mindfulness has been demonstrated countless times to be a useful tool for parents, parents have struggled to find enough information about how to practically apply the practice in their daily lives (Cowling & Van Gordon, 2021).…”

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Controlling the Uncontrollable: Stress, Burnout, and Parenting During a Pandemic

Joyce

2022

The Family Journal

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Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, many parents have struggled to maintain work-life balance. This investigation examines contributors to and protective factors from parental stress during the pandemic. As expected, perceived stress increased with burnout and decreased with parental inhibitory control, mindfulness in parenting, and perceived competence. Interestingly, it showed no association with child age nor the number of children in the home. Similarly, it investigated parental well-being as a function of childcare during COVID. Parents who did not feel that their childcare needs were being met were more stressed, experienced more work and personal burnout, and felt less mindful and competent in their parenting than did parents whose childcare needs were met. The results underscore the importance of providing supports to parents as they emerge from the pandemic, and demonstrate the need to proactively support families should similar crises arise in the future.

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Controlling the Uncontrollable: Stress, Burnout, and Parenting During a Pandemic

Joyce

2022

The Family Journal

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“…Notwithstanding these limitations, this study has valuable implications for mindful parenting research and practice. For example, considering the multiple risk factors for low mindful parenting, it may be best practice for non-clinical mindful parenting interventions to target especially highrisk parents, such as those with low social support and psychological well-being, as well as those with "difficult" children (Cowling & Van Gordon, 2022).…”

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Determinants of mindful parenting: a cross-cultural examination of parent and child reports

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Oliver

2023

Curr Psychol

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Based on Belsky’s process of parenting model and its recent update, the present study aims to explore multiple determinants of mindful parenting (i.e., parents’ psychological distress, child negative emotionality, and parental social support) across the UK and Türkiye using a multi-informant approach and multiple-group path analysis. We considered both parents’ and children’s perceptions of mindful parenting to obtain a complete picture of the mindful parenting process within families. Parents and their children aged 11–16 years were recruited in the UK (N = 101, Mchild age = 13.06 years, SDchild age = 1.64 years) and Türkiye (N = 162, Mchild age = 13.28 years, SDchild age = 1.65 years). Multiple-group path analysis revealed that both parent and child perspectives of mindful parenting are multiply determined. Parental psychological distress mediated the associations of child negative emotionality and social support with mindful parenting in both cultures. However, child negative emotionality was a direct determinant of mindful parenting in the UK only. Overall, our study shed light on both individual and cultural differences in the mindful parenting process. Limitations of the current research and recommendations and implications for future mindful parenting research and practices were discussed.

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“…Mindfulness-based family interventions seem to hold promise for enhancing parent emotional awareness, parent-child interaction quality, and psychological functioning. However, more research is needed to clearly understand the mechanisms of change in mindful parenting over time as well as the malleable factors in mindful parenting so more interventions may be adapted for high-risk populations (Cowling & Van Gordon, 2022). Few studies show that mindfulness-based interventions may improve cognitive flexibility and selfregulation and reduce psychological symptoms among adults and families living in poverty.…”

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A Resilience Process Model of Parenting in the Context of Poverty

Park¹

2023

Human Development

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Poverty is associated with multiple contextual stressors, which may exacerbate child-rearing stress and interfere with positive parenting. However, many parents successfully navigate seemingly insurmountable obstacles and engage in positive parenting, which may allow parents to minimize the impact of poverty on child development by exerting control in responding to child-rearing challenges and focusing on parenting as a source of agency and competence. This paper provides a resilience process model of parenting based on the literatures from multiple disciplines, including socio-cognitive processes, decision-making, and coping, to identify risk and protective factors that contribute to positive parenting. Parents’ adaptive mindsets and more active, problem-oriented coping strategies may strengthen parents’ cognitive and emotion regulation, which, in turn, may lead to more positive parenting behaviors. This conceptual model may contribute to a more nuanced appreciation of how parents living in poverty successfully manage child-rearing challenges. By understanding the resilience process of parenting, we may inform family practice and interventions to better support well-being among families living in poverty.

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Mindful parenting: future directions and challenges

Cited by 13 publications

References 58 publications

Controlling the Uncontrollable: Stress, Burnout, and Parenting During a Pandemic

Controlling the Uncontrollable: Stress, Burnout, and Parenting During a Pandemic

Determinants of mindful parenting: a cross-cultural examination of parent and child reports

A Resilience Process Model of Parenting in the Context of Poverty

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