Wong Kristyn, Hicks Laurel M, Seuntjens Terri G, Trentacosta Christopher J, Hendriksen Tessel H G, Zeelenberg Marcel, van den Heuvel Marion I
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Bradley Research Center, E. P. Bradley Hospital, Providence, RI, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Mar 20;10:550. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00550. eCollection 2019.
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 = 5.11, = 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; = 4.505, = 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.
孩子们每天面临着越来越多的选择，这可能会带来压力。决策技能可能是孩子们为确保成功而需要掌握的最重要的“21世纪技能”之一。决策的许多方面，比如在压力情境下的情绪调节，是在照顾者与孩子互动的背景中发展起来的。本研究考察了正念养育方式是否能预测孩子的个人决策和社会决策。本研究纳入了来自荷兰的63对母婴（孩子平均年龄 = 5.11岁，标准差 = 0.88，50.8%为女孩）。母亲们完成了荷兰版的《养育中的人际正念量表》（IM-P）。开发了一个“选择任务”来测量个人决策技能，并创建了一个“分享任务”来测量幼儿的社会决策。在控制了协变量（孩子年龄、性别、社会经济地位、母亲教育水平）后，母亲更高水平的正念养育显著预测了更多的分享行为（β = 4.505，p = 0.034）。在任何个人决策测量中均未发现母亲正念养育的主效应。这些发现表明，正念养育方式有助于孩子的社会决策。未来的研究应该调查正念养育方式与孩子早期决策技能的结合是否能预测关键的发展结果。
