Youth’s Experience of Mindful Parenting: Exploration and Confirmation of a Revised Measure for Youth and a Model of Emotional Adjustment
摘要
Two studies were conducted to evaluate the psychometrics of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Measure for Youth (IMPM-Y)—a multidimensional tool to measure mindful parenting experienced by adolescents and young adults. A third study tested a Mindful Parenting Influence Model (MPIM) involving the relations between mindful parenting and youth’s dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, and emotional adjustment.
MethodStudy 1 collected survey data from 458 youth (aged 17 to 21) to explore the structure and psychometric properties of the IMPM-Y. In Study 2 (n = 669 youth aged 16 to 21 years), the IMPM-Y structure was confirmed. Combining data collected in Studies 1 and 2 (n = 1109), Study 3 tested direct and indirect effects proposed in the MPIM using regression analyses. Analyses incorporated survey measures of mindful parenting, dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, general well-being, and social anxiety.
ResultsThe IMPM-Y had four factors with good psychometric properties. Regression analyses revealed significant associations of mindful parenting with youth’s better general well-being and lower social anxiety. Additionally, three aspects of mindful parenting had indirect associations with youth’s well-being through either dispositional mindfulness or self-compassion: mindful listening with full attention, parental emotional non-reactivity, and child compassion. Similar findings were observed for mindful listening and child compassion in relation to youth’s social anxiety. Gender did not moderate any of these associations.
ConclusionsThe IMPM-Y is a valid and reliable measure of youth’s report of mindful parenting, which plays direct and indirect roles—involving youth’s mindfulness and self-compassion—in youth’s better emotional adjustment.
PreregistrationThis study was not preregistered.