The Role of Mindful Parenting in Individual and Social Decision-Making in Children

Autor: Kristyn Wong, Christopher J. Trentacosta, Marcel Zeelenberg, Terri G. Seuntjens, Laurel M. Hicks, Marion I. van den Heuvel, Tessel H. G. Hendriksen
Přispěvatelé: Marketing, Department of Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology, 10(MARCH):550, 1-10. Frontiers Media
Wong, K, Hicks, L M, Seuntjens, T G, Trentacosta, C J, Hendriksen, T H G, Zeelenberg, M & van den Heuvel, M I 2019, ' The role of mindful parenting in individual and social decision-making in children ', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, no. MARCH, 550, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00550
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 10 (2019)
Frontiers in Psychology, 10:550. Frontiers Media S.A.
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00550
Popis: Children are confronted with an increasing amount of choices every day, which can be stressful. Decision-making skills may be one of the most important "21st century skills" that children need to master to ensure success. Many aspects of decision-making, such as emotion regulation during stressful situations, develop in the context of caregiver-child interactions. This study examined whether mindful parenting predicts children's individual and social decision-making. The current study included 63 mother-child dyads from The Netherlands (Child M age = 5.11, SD = 0.88, 50.8% girls). Mothers completed the Dutch version of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale (IM-P). A "Choice Task" was developed to measure individual decision-making skills, and a "Sharing Task" was created to measure social decision-making in young children. Higher maternal mindful parenting significantly predicted more sharing after controlling for covariates (child age, sex, SES, maternal education level; Wald = 4.505, p = 0.034). No main effect of maternal mindful parenting was found for any of the individual decision-making measures. These findings suggest that mindful parenting supports children's social decision-making. Future research should investigate if the combination of mindful parenting and children's early decision-making skills predict key developmental outcomes.
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