Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Fam Process. 2022 Jun;61(2):808-822. doi: 10.1111/famp.12702. Epub 2021 Aug 5.
Recent studies have increasingly focused on mindfulness as it relates to interpersonal processes. In particular, cross-sectional research has shown that parents' dispositional mindfulness is associated with increased mindful parenting and coparenting, as well as improved coparenting relationship quality. The current study replicates and extends such work, representing the first longitudinal investigation of mindful coparenting. A sample of 449 parents (60% mothers) of children between the ages of 3 and 17 years were recruited online through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) as part of a larger study on the assessment of parenting. Parents reported on their dispositional mindfulness, mindful coparenting, and coparenting relationship quality at three time points across an 8-month period. Results from a cross-lagged panel model using maximum likelihood estimation suggested that higher levels of parental mindfulness at baseline were related with higher levels of mindful coparenting at 4 months, which, in turn, were related to higher quality coparenting relationship at 8 months. Support for this model was found for both mothers and fathers and across all examined child age groups (i.e., early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence), highlighting the robust nature of these effects. Overall, findings suggest that increasing mindfulness at an individual level can promote meaningful change within a family system, specifically through improvements in coparenting and parent-child interactions.
最近的研究越来越关注正念与人际过程的关系。特别是，横断面研究表明，父母的特质正念与增加正念育儿和共同养育有关，也与改善共同养育关系质量有关。本研究复制并扩展了此类工作，代表了对正念共同养育的首次纵向调查。通过亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk (MTurk) 在线招募了 449 名年龄在 3 至 17 岁之间的儿童的父母（60%为母亲），作为对育儿评估的更大研究的一部分。父母在 8 个月的时间里分三个时间点报告了他们的特质正念、正念共同养育和共同养育关系质量。使用最大似然估计的交叉滞后面板模型的结果表明，基线时较高的父母正念水平与 4 个月时较高的正念共同养育水平相关，而后者又与 8 个月时较高的共同养育关系质量相关。该模型得到了母亲和父亲以及所有被检查的儿童年龄组（即幼儿期、儿童中期和青春期）的支持，突出了这些影响的稳健性。总体而言，研究结果表明，在个体层面上增加正念可以促进家庭系统内的有意义变化，特别是通过改善共同养育和亲子互动。
