Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Do Less Mindful Mothers Show Better Parenting via Improvements in Trait Mindfulness Following a Military Parent Training Program?
Originally published 2019-04-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00909 ↗
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What helps me notice my own reaction before responding to my child?
The analysis asks whether change in mothers’ mindfulness helps explain observed changes in parenting after deployment.
Who was studied?
Mothers in military families participating in the randomized ADAPT parenting trial.
Age / stage: Ages 4–13
Read with three questions
- Which outcomes came from observation and which from mothers’ descriptions of mindfulness?
- Which conclusions follow from randomized assignment, and which rely on additional assumptions?
- What helps me notice my own reaction before responding to my child?
Keep the limits in view
Randomization applies to the assigned program. It does not isolate every proposed mechanism or establish effects in populations beyond the trial.
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Na Zhang; Jingchen Zhang; Abigail H. Gewirtz (2019). Do Less Mindful Mothers Show Better Parenting via Improvements in Trait Mindfulness Following a Military Parent Training Program? Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00909
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