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The Role of Mindful Parenting in Individual and Social Decision-Making in Children

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 s...

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Autores principales: Wong, Kristyn, Hicks, Laurel M., Seuntjens, Terri G., Trentacosta, Christopher J., Hendriksen, Tessel H. G., Zeelenberg, Marcel, van den Heuvel, Marion I.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30949094
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00550
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author Wong, Kristyn
Hicks, Laurel M.
Seuntjens, Terri G.
Trentacosta, Christopher J.
Hendriksen, Tessel H. G.
Zeelenberg, Marcel
van den Heuvel, Marion I.
author_facet Wong, Kristyn
Hicks, Laurel M.
Seuntjens, Terri G.
Trentacosta, Christopher J.
Hendriksen, Tessel H. G.
Zeelenberg, Marcel
van den Heuvel, Marion I.
author_sort Wong, Kristyn
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description 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 M(age) = 5.11, SD = 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; Wald = 4.505, p = 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.
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spelling pubmed-64359562019-04-04 The Role of Mindful Parenting in Individual and Social Decision-Making in Children Wong, Kristyn Hicks, Laurel M. Seuntjens, Terri G. Trentacosta, Christopher J. Hendriksen, Tessel H. G. Zeelenberg, Marcel van den Heuvel, Marion I. Front Psychol Psychology 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 M(age) = 5.11, SD = 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; Wald = 4.505, p = 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6435956/ /pubmed/30949094 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00550 Text en Copyright © 2019 Wong, Hicks, Seuntjens, Trentacosta, Hendriksen, Zeelenberg and van den Heuvel. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wong, Kristyn
Hicks, Laurel M.
Seuntjens, Terri G.
Trentacosta, Christopher J.
Hendriksen, Tessel H. G.
Zeelenberg, Marcel
van den Heuvel, Marion I.
The Role of Mindful Parenting in Individual and Social Decision-Making in Children
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30949094
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