Are Mindful Parents More Authoritative and Less Authoritarian?An Analysis of Clinic-Referred Mothers

摘要

Forty clinic-referred mothers completed ques-tionnaires describing their children's problems, the mothers'parenting styles, and their everyday mindfulness. Psycho-metric analyses of the questionnaires showed mother reportsto be internally consistent, except for one of the parentingstyle scales (i.e., permissive style). We dropped the scaleand analyzed intercorrelations between the remaining twoscales, the mindfulness measure and the child problemmeasure. Results showed the authoritative and authoritarianscales were not correlated, and each scale covaried withmeasures of mindfulness and child problems. Regressionanalyses revealed two pathways between mothers' mind-fulness and child problems. Both pathways showed parent-ing styles to mediate the connections between mothers'mindfulness and their perceptions of child problems. Wespeculated on the nature of the mediating process.