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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2017
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Rita Casey
Abstract
Mindfulness is paying attention to relevant aspects of our human experience nonjudgmentally (Ludwig & Kabat-Zinn, 2008). Typically, effects of mindfulness are explored among children and their parents through intervention studies that aim to increase mindfulness. Parental Mindfulness has been linked to positive effects on youth psychosocial well-being (Bögels et al. 2008; Haydicky et al. 2015; Singh et al. 2007, 2010a, b; Weijer-Bergsma et al. 2012) as well as reduced negative outcomes for children (Anderson et al., 2015). Little has been done to look at effects of dispositional parental mindfulness, the parental mindfulness that occurs without any formal mindfulness training, and even less to look at effects of dispositional parental mindfulness on the outcome of urban children drawn from clinical populations. The current study examined the impact of dispositional parental mindfulness on emotional and behavioral outcomes of clinically referred urban children, to determine whether parental characteristics moderate the effects of stress on their offspring. The results did not support parental mindfulness as a mechanism for emotional and behavioral outcomes of clinically referred, urban children. Limitations and challenges in sample recruitment and construct measurement are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Sepsey, Amber, "Dispositional Parental Mindfulness And Its Impact On Clinically Referred Children" (2017). Wayne State University Theses. 643.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/643