title: Parent Mindfulness and Child Outcome: The Roles of Parent Depressive Symptoms and Parenting.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine pathways in a model which proposed associations among parent mindfulness, parent depressive symptoms, two types of parenting, and child problem behavior. Participants' data were from the baseline assessment of a NIMH-sponsored Family-Group Cognitive-Behavioral intervention program (FGCB) for the prevention of child and adolescent depression (Compas et al., 2009). Participants consisted of 145 mothers and 17 fathers (mean age = 41.89 yrs, SD = 7.73) with a history of depression and 211 children (106 males) (mean age = 11.49 yrs, SD = 2.00). Analyses showed that (a) positive parenting appears to play a significant role in helping explain how parent depressive symptoms relate to child externalizing problems and (b) mindfulness is related to child internalizing and externalizing problems; however, the intervening constructs examined did not appear to help explain the mindfulness-child problem behavior associations. Suggestions for future research on parent mindfulness and child problem outcome are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parent
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garai
authors.forename: Rex
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forehand
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Roland
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Potts
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haker
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Champion
authors.forename: Bruce E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Compas